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Nursing Care Plans
Nursing Care Plans
Nursing Care Plans
Step 9: Putting it on
Paper
The client’s care plan is documented
according to hospital policy and
becomes part of the client’s
permanent medical record which may
be reviewed by the oncoming nurse.
Different nursing programs have
different care plan formats. Most are
designed so that the student
Sample nursing systematically proceeds through the
interventions and rationale interrelated steps of the nursing
for a care plan (NCP) process, and many use a five-column
Rationales do not appear in regular format.
care plans. They are included to assist
nursing students in associating the Nursing Care Plan
pathophysiological and psychological List
principles with the selected nursing This section lists the sample nursing
intervention. care plans (NCP) and NANDA
nursing diagnoses for various
Step 8: Evaluation disease and health conditions. They
are segmented into categories:
Evaluating is a planned, ongoing,
purposeful activity in which the Basic Nursing and
client’s progress towards achieving
General Care Plans
goals or desired outcomes and the
effectiveness of the nursing care plan
Miscellaneous nursing care plans
(NCP). Evaluation is an essential
examples that don’t fit other
aspect of the nursing
categories:
process because conclusions drawn
from this step determine whether the
Cancer (Oncology Nursing)
End-of-Life Care (Hospice Care Angina Pectoris (Coronary
or Palliative) Artery Disease)
Geriatric Nursing (Older Adult) Cardiac Arrhythmia (Digitalis
Prolonged Bed Rest Toxicity)
Surgery (Perioperative Client) Cardiac Catheterization
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cardiogenic Shock
Total Parenteral Nutrition Congenital Heart Disease
Heart Failure UPDATED!
Surgery and Hypertension UPDATED!
Hypovolemic Shock
Perioperative Care Myocardial Infarction
Plans Pacemaker Therapy