so one of the biggest questions I get from nursing students is about care
plants especially how to get better grades and how to save time writing them
so a few weeks ago I actually did a Facebook live to answer this question
how I got A's on all of my nursing school care plans without spending a
zillion hours writing them and I wanted to share that video with you today on
YouTube because I know that you are going to love it I'm going to walk you
through my number one resource for writing amazing care plans and nursing
school and you just really shouldn't live without it I really really don't
want you to live without it it's called the nursing diagnosis handbook and it
will just about change your life so in this video I'm gonna walk you through
step-by-step on how to use it to write a plus care plans for nursing school and a
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Hey everyone, Christina here with nursingschoolofsuccess.com and I just posted
a video yesterday up on YouTube about resources that I recommend for nursing
school and one of them was a book for care plans amazing you guys gotta get
this book it helped me so much in nursing school I wish I had known about
it sooner everything I do here is trying to save you time in nursing school these
are things that I wish I knew when I started so one of them a big one for me
was this care plan book and it was actually required by my school so if you
have one it's probably similar to this or it might actually be this one so in
this video I'm going to walk you through how to use it and how it can help you
save a ton of time writing care plans it's amazing I did not use it actually
my first I would say a little while in nursing school a few a few terms at
least and then by the end I was just thinking to myself oh my gosh I wish I
knew about this cedar because it's amazing it'll help you so much so I
wanted to show you a couple of things here's the book that I recommend it is
the nursing diagnosis handbook by Ackley and Ladwig and actually this is
the the 10th edition and I think there is a new additional probably the 11th
maybe even later but I'm pretty sure there is a new edition out this is a
fairly older one that I've got but still amazing I mean I bet it's still the same
so what I kind of wanted to this is a really good one is anxiety here so I
wanted to point out a few things in this book so I don't know I hope you can see
that um this book walks you through literally kind of everything you gotta
know so definition so the definition in your care plan book is super nice
because sometimes when you're dealing with a patient you have this list of
possible nursing diagnoses in your head and you
or thinking okay well I know you've got to prioritize them and there's all these
possible nursing diagnoses having that definition there in the book it tells
you actually what that nursing diagnosis includes and sometimes it's not what you
think it is so you might think to yourself that oh this would be a perfect
nursing diagnosis for my patient but then you go when you look at the
definition and it's not actually what you thought it was that happened to me
quite a bit so that definition is really good definitely look at that first to
make sure that that nursing diagnosis that you want to use for your care plan
actually fits your patient so that's tip number one now the next thing I want to
show you is this kind of second section here it's defining characteristics so
this is for anxiety is this nursing diagnosis so these defining
characteristics are actually so nice and for anxiety it actually breaks it up I
see in the like behavioral affective physiological if there's you know tons
of category so all of those defining characteristics you guys you guys these
are the signs and the symptoms that you'll be looking for in your patient
like I can't even I can't even it literally like writes your care plan for
you of course you've got to assess your patient but you can look at this list
and be like oh yeah she did have that that actually is a sign in symptom of
anxiety that's amazing I learned so first of all you learn something new
second of all your care plan is just better and faster because it's in the
book for you it's incredible so I hope that helps defining characteristics are
the signs and symptoms that you would want to write in your care plan so now
these signs and symptoms go in the as evidenced by section in your nursing
diagnosis part that kind of p/es statement so the as evidenced by their
the AE be you would call it is the defining characteristics the signs and
symptoms of what you would see for your patient for whatever nursing diagnosis
you're working with alright now the next one is obvious is there related to so
related to factors so like the really it's the underlying
pathophysiology like what is actually happening with your patient now this
this is a big deal because this is actually probably the biggest thing that
I see nursing students couldn't get hung up on is this related to section of
nursing care plans so you know a lot of people want to do like let's say for
example diabetes so if you have a you know some some diabetes related nursing
nursing diagnosis and then I see a lot of students maybe wanted to use a
related to factor being something like it's related to lifestyle or
environmental factors or something like that but further related to it really
should be something related to the pathophysiology of what's going on the
underlying physiological process so for diabetes for example it could be
something like insulin resistance or decrease insulin production something
like that because those are related to the pathophysiology not the
environmental stuff you see what I'm saying so they're related to factors of
the nursing diagnosis should be something that's related to the
pathophysiology or the underlying condition whatever is going on with them
so that is that section this in this in your nursing care plan book textbook it
will actually help you with that because that's probably the probably one of the
toughest parts of care plans that I see I don't know I know that a lot of
students lose points on that related to factor because it really needs to be
that kind of deep critical thinking of what is going on with your specific
patient that's causing all these things to happen so that is that related to
factor so this even like that little tip right there they're related to for this
book is super important and this book will help walk you through that as well
so let's keep working with anxiety here um the next section in this book is that
it um see the outcomes can you see that yeah outcomes so it's actually it keeps
going on to the next page so client outcomes
these are possible outcomes possible goals that you could write for your
patient I just can't even with this textbook I so wish I had known this
earlier because you guys we stress and we like nursing school turmoil and
you're like in it and you're stressed and you're anxious and your head anxiety
and you've got so much going on and then you have all these care planes on top of
it it is hard to think of possible goals for your patient and to get them written
the the right way that your instructors want that whole SMART goal thing it's
not all situation so this book actually walks you through a lot of possible
patient outcomes patient goals that your patient most likely would want to
achieve and that we would want them to achieve as well so let's see for anxiety
I'll just give you an example so for anxiety here identify and verbalize
symptoms of anxiety that's amazing so for your patients with anxiety that
would be a goal you know having them actually verbalize their symptoms of
anxiety and how they're feeling like that's a great goal for any psychiatric
disorder that you you might be dealing with with your patients so there's so
those are the client outcomes client will statements and you guys actually
shouldn't mention that I do have a whole video that will be coming out on YouTube
very soon all about writing care plans again so I'm gonna give you some of my
best tips for that and we're really actually diving into how to write
patient goals and they're related to factors again so I'm gonna be talking
about that again so definitely check that video out now the next section of
this care plan book is probably I keep saying that all of these are the best
but I think that this is where this one right here is what we'll just I don't
know pay for the book I mean really like with the time you save with this one
here and what is it nursing interventions dun dun dun dun
yep nursing interventions because especially new nursing students it's so
hard because you have no idea no idea what you're supposed to do right you're
like going to clinical and I'm like standing in the middle of the hallway
just looking around like nobody knows if they're supposed to do nursing school
right so having a whole list of nursing interventions is going to save your life
so that is all in this book so you literally when you sit down to write
your nursing care plan you went you had already assessed your patient you have
all of the data written now everything that you need now you're sitting at your
desk to write your care plan you whip out this book and it literally almost
rates it for you so you go down the list you you check um you kind of think in
your mind like okay what disorders can I use and then you go through those
disorders and you look at the definition you say okay this one fits this one fits
this one fits perfect then you go through the defining characteristics
okay you know signs and symptoms of what you saw with your patient boom put those
in your care plan what their goals should be the related to factors and the
interventions oh and did I mention the interventions actually have rationales
in this book in the book it's all they're all there it's pretty incredible
oh and I completely forgot to see on the front cover
it actually has all of the nanda nursing diagnoses this is this is a big question
that I get an email people emailing me where can they get the whole list of
nanda nursing diagnoses these are the standardized nursing diagnoses and my
friend my friend here is the answer in the book and the book it's all in the
book for you written science sealed delivered in the book so all you gotta
do is flip the front cover and bam they're all there can you see that all
of them so I hope that helps there you go
that is why best nursing school care plan hack is to use these books this
book here is my favorite the nursing diagnosis handbook by Ackley and Ladwig
again this is the 10th edition I think there is a newer one and check first
though if your school didn't provide your I know your school doesn't provide
textbooks for you if they did that would be amazing
alright but if your school required you to buy a carry playing book and you
already maybe you've bought it but you forget
that you bought it so check your textbooks first I know they can become a
slippery little suckers so if it's buried under a pile of clothes somewhere
pull that care plan book out and see if it's similar to what we've got going on
here if it's not though if this one is cooler than yours get this one because
it literally girlfriend literally will save you hours I don't know how I lived
without it I just don't know I remember writing my first care plan and it was a
partner activity and get this guy's get this it was on constipation constipation
yeah that was fun and I'm pretty sure if I remember her I'm pretty sure we met
about it like me and my partner because it was a two-person deal we were buddied
up for this first care plan pretty sure we met maybe four times and oh it took
us hours it took us hours to rate this care plan on constipation you guys Oh
care plans in nursing school let's just let's just have a moment for that all
right so I hope that helps I will put a link to this video or to this video to
this book in the comments below after this video and that will be an affiliate
link actually I do have an affiliate link for Amazon so just a little
disclaimer there if you do choose to purchase do that link I will get a small
Commission so I appreciate your support with that if you
don't want to buy through that link that don't no big deal I still want you to
get the book because it's amazing so you can just search it on Amazon nursing
diagnosis handbook by Ackley and Ludwig or you can use the link I'll put it in
the description below or in the comments below gosh you guys I'm so used to
YouTube in the description below and OK in the comments below I'll put that link
to this care plane book and I hope that helps if you have any questions any
questions on care planes we actually do okay so a couple things I do have a care
plane video coming out on YouTube very soon I just have been thinking thinking
about it it's gonna go over the the goals so how to write care plane goals
and it's also gonna dive a little bit deeper into the related to how to create
a related to you know kind of that um what I want to call it category of the
nursing diagnosis so you're kind of p/es statement that etiology part that
related to part so I know that's a tough kind of a sticking point for nursing
students so that videos gonna help and then also if you are not a nursing SOS
member we do have a full care plane course inside the membership community
and I've actually got full plug-and-play care plans in there too so our students
have had it's just such great success with those and with that course I'm
sorry it's just it's incredible I'm so glad that they've had so much success
that's what I'm here for is for you to be successful in nursing school so like
I said if you have any questions you know let me know you can't actually do
this Facebook a DM I don't know so DM me on Facebook or on Instagram or you can
email me anytime I am around so here to help I hope you guys have a beautiful
rest of your week and weekend and a new video will be popping up on YouTube
tomorrow for Thursday so I will see you then take care you guys bye um game
changer right holy moly I just really couldn't
without this book in nursing school so I hope you found this video helpful and I
hope that you will snag in this book right away if you think that it will be
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