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Nursing Care Plans & Documentation: Nursing Diagnoses and Collaborative Problems
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.73
EAN: 9780397551453
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 0397551452
Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published),
Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 825
Publication Date: 1994-12
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Editorial Review:
This unique text is the definitive reference for the formulation of nursing care plans for independent nursing care. It contains care plans for all ill adults as well as those with specific clinical problems. It also includes research validated identification of frequently encountered nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems. This easy-to-read text has a strong documentation focus providing guidelines and complete coverage of nursing care. This edition contains nine new care plans including Acute Alcohol Withdrawal, Sexual Assault, and Dying and Death. A new appendix includes a case study that illustrates how to use this text as a guide to creating care plans for clients with multiple medical diagnoses.
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Rating: - Better Choices Available
This author has some good insights contained in the Author's Notes at the beginning of each nursing diagnosis. In her Notes she explains the differences between diagnoses that seem almost identical. But you can get the same insights in her smaller, more concise Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis, without the expense and inconvenience of the full-blown, padded-out version. Also, the smaller Handbook should not be your first care planning book. Instead, it's a valuable supplement that will help refine ... Read More
Rating:  - Waste-O-Money
Bought this book as it was 'required' for nursing courses. I suspect this is the only reason this book is ever even purchased, because it IS NOT HELPFUL! Never seen such a convoluted resource, this was the WORST. IMO, Carpenito is obviously riding on her laurels from past publications. If you are a beginning nursing student that is attempting to make heads or tails of care planning, save yourself the agony now. THUMBS DOWN!
Rating:  - There is a better choice!
I bought this book thinking it would be a bigger and better version of the spiral bound Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis. It really isn't! I feel that this book is hard to navigate through and never use it! I paid 45ish dollars for this book and think it was a HUGE WASTE OF MONEY. I do, on the other hand, LOVE the SPIRAL BOUND HANDBOOK OF NURSING DIAGNOSIS by the same author Carpenito-Moyet. I have discussed this topic with many of my classmates who also have these books and eveyone of my classmates ... Read More
Rating:  - Recommended in Brandon and Hill for small medical libraries
The Brandon and Hill bibliography for best medical and nursing books recommends this title as item for small nursing libraries in the catagory of nursing diagnosis.
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