Hi, angel12, and welcome at allnurses!
You are not going to find any postpartum care plans on the internet. Sorry. Care plans are pretty much custom made. You will find information about the writing of care plans on the nursing student forums and in particular on these two threads:
You will also get more help with a care plan if you post on the Nursing Student Assistance Forum or the General Nursing Student Discussion Forum. You can link to them by clicking on the "Students" tab above.
All care plans, regardless of what type of patient is involved, begin with doing a thorough assessment of the patient. A nursing diagnosis is nothing more than a label that is descriptive of the problems the patient has. The patient's problems are determined by the things you find during your assessment that are not normal. Those abnormal things which are really the patient's signs and symptoms (NANDA calls them defining characteristics) become the focus for your goals and nursing interventions--not the nursing diagnosis. So, put your work on this care plan into your assessment of the patient. You will find assessment information on these threads:
You want to compare a postpartum assessment with what you found in your patient to see if you missed something and then correct yourself. This is how you will get better at assessing. From your patient's signs and symptoms you use a nursing diagnosis reference book to choose the correct nursing diagnoses. Most of the time the diagnoses are prioritized by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs unless your instructors are telling you to use another system.
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How funny... I needed exactly the same information few weeks ago when I was doing my care plan.. I did my care plan on risk for infection for post partum mom. I found Maternal-nursing care plan book at the school library. If you are doing a care plan on this diagnosis, I can email you my care plan to you.
