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Book ID Asin: 0323065376
Book Title: Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes (NURSING CARE PLANS: NURS DIAG/ INTERVENTION ( GULANICK))
Book Author: Meg Gulanick,Judith L. Myers
Book Format: unknown Book Price: unknown
Book Category: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Medicine & Health Sciences and unknown
Book Rating: 379 ratings

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• Best Sellers Rank: #655,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #187 in Nurse-Patient Relations
  • #230 in Nursing Patient Education
  • #278 in Nursing Assessment & Diagnosis (Books)

• Customer Reviews:
  4.6 out of 5 stars 379 ratings

Book Review

Name: Stephanie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great condition of used book.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2022
Review: Book is in great condition, ill update my review after I have the chance to read and got through it.

Name: Carolyn Smith
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book! Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2013
Review: November 30, 2013: As an VERY experienced RN with an MSN, I understand how important it is to have the information at your fingertips to provide the highest quality of care to vulnerable patient populations. And when my daughter entered HER nursing program three months ago, it became evident to me that not all textbooks required by her program had what it takes to make the grade. After just one week of watching her struggle to compose a care plan for her patient, it struck me that she did not have the appropriate tools to even begin to understand the delicate details of problem-solving the simplest of tasks for her new student knowledge level. Her assigned text was so cumbersome and difficult to understand and plow through just to get to the subject matter from the pages. I decided that, since her instructors had failed to provide them with the necessary foundation (through the right textbooks) to form a strong and confident student nurse, I would go online and find a better book. NURSING CARE PLANS: DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS, AND OUTCOMES, 7th Edition by Meg Gulanick is just that book! It is well organized, intuitive, user-friendly and fits the bill for new or experienced nurses. My daughter not only can quickly build a care plan with this book, but she shared it with others in her class. Her fellow students, many whom cannot afford to go out and purchase a new book, frequently borrow NURSING CARE PLANS from my daughter while in their clinicals so they can finish their assignments. This alone says all that needs to be said. My daughter has ditched using her assigned text and uses this book exclusively. It is extremely pleasing to watch as she grows in her nursing pursuit, and actually LEARNS as she puts together her care plans, knowing that I made the right choice by purchasing this book for her studies.

Name: E. Hansen
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Start......
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2011
Review: I have really enjoyed this care plan book and it has been a great asset to completing our monster care plans. While it does not have the most detailed information and I feel it sometimes lack a lot of in-depth knowledge, it shines where most care plan books do not - interventions and rational.

Our nursing program requires that every intervention requires in depth rational. Which makes sense. What I have found is that most care plan books do not include this information. Perhaps because they want you to make those connections yourself...hahaha :) But, lets face it.....if you knew everything, you wouldn't be in school or looking for a care-plan book.

I use this book to help me compile complete and concise interventions for my care plans. It has never failed me. It is spelled out in very simple terms and most information is grouped together. For example if your patient has pneumonia, you can find multiple diagnosis in the same area. No need to flip all over the book. I feel like a lot of time is wasted in searching for information, I have never had this problem with this book and it makes life a lot easier.

Bottom line, great book to use in addition to another care-plan book. Probably not the best to use as your sole reference book.

Name: Amy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: HOLY COW BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE IN NURSING SCHOOL
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2012
Review: I am a nursing student and my school had us purchase another care plan book. The book we had to purchase was aweful and confusing. So I set out to find a book that was actually helpful. THIS WAS IT! I cannot tell you how helpful this book is. You look up the disease your patient has and it has pages of diagnoses you can use...right there is your primary and secondary diagnoses. Step 1 done. The "common expected outcome" box is your goal and type away! PIECE OF CAKE! Plus, once you are in the correct disease, the care plan interventions and rationales are tailored right to it. Literally all you have to do is put the information in the correct area of your care plan and re-type in your own words. Care plans made simple! And, by the end of doing a few patients...you actually start to understand how these things work and the patho behind all your interventions because the book explains them so well. Worth it's weight in gold. 100% on all care plans so far!

Name: Malika
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: THE BEST care plan book around
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2011
Review: I had previously bought another nursing care plan book, "Sparks and Taylor's Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual," as it was referred to me by my first clinical instructor. But, as I started creating care plans, I found it pretty uninformative with not much detail suiting what my professor's need was for our assignments. I then borrowed a nurse's care plan book that she had used for her nursing school just the previous 2 years, "Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention," the 6th edition of THIS book. I LOVED IT! It suited ALL my needs and provided NANDA diagnoses and definitions, as the other did not. I came on Amazon to see if it was available and saw that this new 7th edition was coming out. I had to get this new one because it would be the best of the best. And sure enough, it is! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND to nursing students doing care plans as well as to nurses who create care plans as part of their profession. There are not enough good things I can write about this book. Highly recommended. I'm spreading the word to my classmates this upcoming semester.

Name: Lee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great resource for care plan development.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015
Review: I was given the project of developing templates for care plans in a electronic medical record (EMR)system. I had used care plan libraries in other systems, and found the systems to be very incomplete. So, when I had this opportunity to add to a very incomplete system, I wanted to make sure nurses using this system would be able to find care plans for whatever diagnosis was identified in the EMR library. This book provided great assistance in achieving my goal in making a user friendly library for the nurses. I continue to use this book as a reference if a diagnosis has been missed, and have also directed the nurses to this book.

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