NURSING CARE PLAN

 It is used as an excellent clinical teaching method.

 It helps the students to develop basic nursing like :
 Assessing the patients condition
 Formulating nursing diagnosis
 Prioritising patients’ needs
 Planning care
 Implementing the care with rationale
 Evaluating the care
 It helps the students to recognise the importance of delivering continuous and
comprehensive care in a systematic way.
 Fosters professionalism and creativity among students
 Helps the students to become familiar with the nursing process approach
 Before taking care plan, teachers have to conduct a discussion and reach into a
consensus regarding the format and the content preferably in accordance with
NANDA.
 To enrich the value of nursing care plan, teacher has to give sufficient help and
guidance to students in preparing and implementing care plans.
 Nursing care plan is an excellent, cost – effective and learner centered clinical
teaching method