nursing care plans

what are the purposes of nursing care plans?

• Defines nurse’s role.

• Provides direction for individualized care of the client.

• Continuity of care.

The following is only appear in student nursing care plans

• assessment

• diagnosis

• outcome

• nursing intervention

• rationale

When you develop a nursing care plan, What is the next step After formulating nurse diagnose?

• setting priorities

• providing rationale

• selecting nursing intervention

• establishing nursing outcome

The following below is the example of therapeutic intervention:

• Observe blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration every 8 hours

• Perform passive ROM exercises on the client 2 times a day

The following is types of collaboration intervention:

• explain to the family about treating children with fever at home

• Carry out the results of the collaboration of giving paracetamol 3x500 mg/day

high priority to be addressed, in your care plan:

• life threatening

• health threatening

• affects human behaviour

which is the second priority in your care plan?

• actual problem

• at risk problem

Types of nursing intervention

• Assessment/Diagnostic/Observation

• Independent /therapeutic nursing intervention

• Health education

• Collaboration/(delegation) medical intervention