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

I purchased this, and the size is nice, but there's nothing that's not in my school text book for care plans. I am returning it because I don't need 2 of the same thing. (I am a second year nursing student)

Practical pocket book with everything you need to help you write nursing care plans. Perhaps one day this resource will be available for my palm pilot!

This has been a wonderful resource for writing my first care plans as a nursing student starting out in my clinical med/surg rotation. If you can only buy one book, buy this one. It's easy to use, specific, and all the diagnoses are arranged according to Gordon's functional health patterns. And there are really great "cheat sheets" in the front for SOAPIE notes and LOTS of short assessments (e.g. respiration, pain, elimination, etc.) It saves you from wanting to carry around your textbook in the hospital! Plus, it's just the right size and not heavy.

This book is great for the nursing student who is just learning about the nursing process and all of it's steps. Learning the nursing diagnosis's and all of the rationales is not an easy task to accomplish. This is a great book to help study and also to keep in your pocket for clinicals.