Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales

This is a great book for nursing students, it's small size is perfect for bringing to clinicals, and the it has a nice laminated removable card that gives you a bunch of recommended nursing diagnosis for each body system. This book is a slimmed down verson of the ackley nanda book (if you have that), so id say this isn't a MUST for nursing students, but if you are someone who likes to get some of your work done while at clinicals or you don't want to lug your heavy books around, then i recommend this book. Don't be fooled by the size though, because there is A LOT of information in this little book. You could easily write your care plans from just this book. If you are looking for other nursing student books, read my other reviews, because if you are limited on cash, there are other books id recommend more than this one personally, and maybe get this one down the road.

I bought this is nursing school years agai and it was good to have

Although this book is just a bit too large to fit into my scrubs, it does come with a 'pocket card' to carry with you on your clinicals with handy tips for keeping things straight. This same author has also published another book 'Application of Nursing Process and Nursing Diagnoses' which complements this text. This book picks up where the other leaves off, and includes the rationales for particular nursing diagnoses. Very helpful when you are trying to sort out the appropriate diagnosis and interventions for a patient. This has helped me to write more exacting careplans and has helped in formulating various approaches to a problem so that I am able to understand the process of writing careplans that are accurate, timely and make sense! Thank you Marilynn Doenges!

I would recommend this book. It was helpful for me while doing care plans. The book is very useful and easy to navigate through.

I ordered this product on a Sunday night and it got to my house Wednesday. That's pretty impressive compared to the weeks that I have had to wait for some other products on Amazon... It even came with a handwritten "thank you" on the receipt. Much appreciated.I got this book for nursing school. Besides the fact that I am used to getting books a great, let me emphasize that word, great deal cheaper when buying online versus from the store, I am very pleased. I still got a pretty good percentage off the retail price with this one. It's hard out right now and I'm grateful that I could find this for as cheap as I did.The book seems brand new. Scanned a few pages, everything seems right.Very satisfied with this product and the speed at which it was delivered.

This is an easy to follow format for care plans. I have tried others but this is small in size also. It is divided into section. The first two chapters present brief discussions of the nursing process, data collection, and care plan construction. Chapter 3 contains the Diagnostic Divisions, Assessment Tool, sample of a care plan, and other supporting examples. Beginning with Chapter 4 the nursing diagnosis are listed alphabetically including its definition, risk factors, defining characteristics, desired outcomes that are broken down using priorities. After using this book, my class grade has been improving. I could not figure out how everything would fit together. It makes more sense now. Thanks and I hope it will work for you.

useful,but do yourself a favor and buy the current information

I used this book my 2nd year of nursing school, and wish I would have discovered it sooner. This book had a listing of interventions, rationales, many of which I used on my concept maps in nursing school. This book could fit into my bag, so I could bring it with me to my post-conference during my clinic days, too, which was very helpful. I found that I used this book more than my required nursing diagnosis textbook for my program.