Care plan help

Careplans can be a very important tool in managing quality nursing care for your patients, its all how you do it and how it is implemented.

When I came to this facility the NCP's were pathetic, After inservices, I made the RN's write comprehensive careplans that cover EVERYTHING and then the LPN's have to read them and do the evals every 3 months or more if necessary and update PRN. It helps with consistency in care and the nurses were suprised how much they learned by reading them.
When one family wanted to sue us after her Mother broke her leg in the shower room, and the staff claimed that the family insisted on doing all showers so they werent to blame. The only thing that served to prevent the lawsuit was that I had updated a careplan a few months before the incident and wrote, "according to family request, all showers will be done by daughter or her appointee , SW approves" It had become so everyday and ordinary that nurses didn't bother writing about it, and of course the daughter never signed for the baths.
BTW the "I" careplans sound nice too, we dont use them and I have no idea how they would do on survey.
BTW, at the survey, we got high marks and compliments on our NCP.
The NCP is not to be brushed away as unnecessary- regard it as the mark of a professionally run unit!! It is a way to take credit for what we do!!

Daytonite, pre-printed care plan??? can you please show us an example? I think that sounds so genius!!! hehe. But then does your facility allow that?