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

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

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Authors: Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr
Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 reviews
Sales Rank: 2846

Media: Paperback
Edition: 11
Pages: 968
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.4 x 1.1

ISBN: 0803618573
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.075
EAN: 9780803618572
ASIN: 0803618573

Publication Date: February 2008
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Customer Reviews:   Read 16 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars This book is GOLD!   March 23, 2000
51 out of 52 found this review helpful

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.


5 out of 5 stars Great book for the student nurse.   September 27, 1999
33 out of 34 found this review helpful

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.


3 out of 5 stars Good as a guide   December 19, 2005
Soaring Heart
21 out of 21 found this review helpful

but not to be used solely for writing care plans and here's the main reason why: there are very few rationales. Too few. In the care plans I was required to write, I had to have scientific rationales for each and every intervention. This book includes some rationales but not one for each intervention. I did use this book some but it will not be enough alone for those whose teacher, like mine, requires quoted rationales for each intervention of your care plan. Furthermore, the new NANDA approved Nursing Diagnoses for 2005-2006 aren't included which I was expected to know and start using when applicable this school year. So I had to go out and buy a new care plan book. I think this guide is intended, as the title suggests, for Nurses already working as a pocket guide, and not specifically for nursing students. It is a bit too tall and heavy to keep in your pocket working in the hospital but you could leave it at your station.

This book does have its merits. What I like most is that the diagnoses are alphabetized for quick reference, which is useful after client interviews to double check my potential ideas of a diagnosis before I'd go home to stay up into the wee hours of the night preparing my client's diagnoses and plans of care for next day's clinical. Also I found very helpful the laminated card in the back of the book of all the diagnoses and their catagories (which can be comfortably carried in my pocket btw) because my teacher only wanted for the first semester care plans, two physiological and one psychosocial diagnosis per client. One has to have a clear understanding of each type of diagnosis as the critical ones should be done and listed first. Remember your ABC's (A=airway, B=breathing C=circulation. )
Bottom line, this book is good but not as your primary nursing care plan guide book, in my opinion. Good luck to all future nurses!
Soar!



4 out of 5 stars Good but nothing new.   August 1, 2002
14 out of 20 found this review helpful

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)


5 out of 5 stars Concise, Compact and well organized !   December 28, 2000
zoomer (USA)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful

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!




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