Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

Delivered fast. Bought for my nursing block 1 class. There are some noticible wear and tears on the exterior of the textbook but is manageable. This book definitely came in handy for writing up a care plan during simulation.

I purchased this book as a required book for one of the courses for an RN to BSN bridge program. It is very well laid out, and the nursing diagnoses are easily retrieved. The outcomes and interventions are appropriate to the diagnosis and are helpful in creating more individualized care plans. It is broken down into three sections, and explains steps in assessing for formulation of appropriate nursing diagnosis. Even if you are not currently enrolled in an advanced course of study, this is an excellent reference book for clinically practicing ADN (or higher degree) nurses.

Great book.

I have been using the mandatory Carpenito handbook for my nursing program and hated it. A fellow student happened to have the 9th ed of this book and I immediately fell in love with it...and subsequently had to have it. The index in the front with all the relevant nursing diagnoses that coincide with specific medical diagnoses is amazing!! And I love having interventions and rationales (including EBN rationales) all spelled out for you in one location. This has saved me so much time with the millions of care plans I have to do. My only problem is that the advertised supplemental material online including pre-made care plans, case studies, a care plan customizer, NCLEX review questions, etc are not available. The website is basically a shell waiting for someone to put the information in. I was extremely disappointed as this was the main reason I splurged on the brand new latest edition of this book. Otherwise I would've saved myself $30.

Useful for care plans!

Kind confusing to understand the logic of how they label things here but once you get the hang of it, you'll be getting better at finding the correct diagnosis and will pave the way for you to come up with them on your own next time. An absolute must have. You will need this book during school and sometimes even outside of school. They could do a better job with information in this book. There is an online part that goes with this book, it seems to be more detailed and offer what I needed that the book did not have. keep that in mind. The online part is made by the same people from what I remember

I would recommend this book to the student nurse who's just learning to write care plans. The book takes you step-by-step through the process, and helps you understand all the crazy Nanda diagnoses, etc. I have a feeling that after using the daylights out of this book, I'll be able to write a care plan with no problem and I'll know the standard lingo so that other nurses will know exactly what I'm talking about when they read my plan. I'm sold.

This book is amazeballs. This makes writing the care plans so much easier than using the regular nursing theory text books. You still need to tailor the care plan to your specific patient, but this book puts all the information in one location on each nursing diagnosis. I may even buy the pocket version of this to make it easier to take to clinicals. I got mine used and it was in like new condition and a fraction of the new price. Definitely a must for any during student. This was not a required text for my program, but it should be.

Great

Incredibly helpful, I highly recommend reading the first few pages of the book to understand how to use it. It has different sections that are explained in the introduction of the book

Awesome !! Very happy to have it . Helping a lot in the clinical settings .

Very helpful book during my nursing class days. Tends to show me the nursing plans sample .learned a lot.

best nursing diagnosis book way better than carpenito