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

by Betty J. Ackley, Gail B. Ladwig

This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient's unique needs. Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.

Genres: Nursing, Reference, School, Textbooks, Nonfiction, College, Medical

960 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Betty J. Ackley, MSN EdS RN

Reviews

[Rae (semi-hiatus) · Rating 4 out of 5]

You won’t ever use this outside nursing school (since medical software basically creates your care plan/diagnosis itself) but while you are in NS this will be a book you’ll always want to have within reach. Like 70% of nursing school is writing care plans and nursing diagnoses right? Well this gives you the evidence based reasons for your diagnosis (which is vastly different from a medical diagnosis of course lol). It has every kind of problem imaginable and then offers you the rationale for the “as evidenced by” portion of your diagnosis.
Highly recommend using and reading this. It just makes your life so much easier.

[Deidre · Rating 4 out of 5]

LOVE this particular care plan book. It lays everything out so well, with separate areas for diagnoses, indexes that are well laid-out, and rationales that are succinct yet thorough.. It also organizes the information in a rational manner, grouping diseases and/or symptoms so they make sense.

Seriously, I've gone through other care plan books, and THIS is the ONE edition I will never give up.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE IT!!! This book basically writes your case studies and care plans for you. The information is incredibly comprehensive and clear. Every possible diagnosis, cause, intervention and rationale are laid out perfectly. You can't go wrong with this book.

[mpfrom · Rating 4 out of 5]

I use this book quite often, especially the first part of it where all of the conditions are listed with potential diagnoses for each. Very helpful.

[whenu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful for care plans. Confusing to navigate at times. Evidence for some interventions feel irrelevant.

[Tracey · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of two books from nursing school I will actually keep forever.

[Julia Wood]

WY49 N9745 2011

[Nick Bachman · Rating 3 out of 5]

hey if you are writing patient care plans this book can really help but i still pity you

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Our cheat sheet. Bet you guys didn't know we get to cheat.

[Teeso]

hi

[Claire Berslow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad. Really helps you get an understanding of NANDA Diagnoses