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Dewey Decimal Number: 610.73 EAN: 9780397546817 ISBN: 0397546815 Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Pages: 720 Publication Date: 1990-12 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This unique text is the definitive reference for the formulation of nursing care plans for independent nursing care. It contains care plans for all ill adults as well as those with specific clinical problems. It also includes research validated identification of frequently encountered nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems. This easy-to-read text has a strong documentation focus providing guidelines and complete coverage of nursing care. This edition contains nine new care plans including Acute Alcohol Withdrawal, Sexual Assault, and Dying and Death. A new appendix includes a case study that illustrates how to use this text as a guide to creating care plans for clients with multiple medical diagnoses. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Better Choices AvailableThis author has some good insights contained in the Author's Notes at the beginning of each nursing diagnosis. In her Notes she explains the differences between diagnoses that seem almost identical. But you can get the same insights in her smaller, more concise Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis, without the expense and inconvenience of the full-blown, padded-out version. Also, the smaller Handbook should not be your first care planning book. Instead, it's a valuable supplement that will help refine ... Read More Rating:  - Waste-O-MoneyBought this book as it was 'required' for nursing courses. I suspect this is the only reason this book is ever even purchased, because it IS NOT HELPFUL! Never seen such a convoluted resource, this was the WORST. IMO, Carpenito is obviously riding on her laurels from past publications. If you are a beginning nursing student that is attempting to make heads or tails of care planning, save yourself the agony now. THUMBS DOWN! Rating:  - There is a better choice!I bought this book thinking it would be a bigger and better version of the spiral bound Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis. It really isn't! I feel that this book is hard to navigate through and never use it! I paid 45ish dollars for this book and think it was a HUGE WASTE OF MONEY. I do, on the other hand, LOVE the SPIRAL BOUND HANDBOOK OF NURSING DIAGNOSIS by the same author Carpenito-Moyet. I have discussed this topic with many of my classmates who also have these books and eveyone of my classmates ... Read More Rating:  - This author is greatCarpenito's books tend to be the best in the nursing care plan area. They are easy to read and provide great reference material for the student. ... Rating: - Recommended in Brandon and Hill for small medical librariesThe Brandon and Hill bibliography for best medical and nursing books recommends this title as item for small nursing libraries in the catagory of nursing diagnosis. 
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