Care Plans

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Specializes in LPN.

Does anyone know of a good web site that has free nursing care plans to use for reference? If anybody knows can you let me know thanks

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

most care plans, especially for school, need to be individualize in some way. your instructors should also be giving you specific instructions on how to set up and write out the care plans you will be turning in for your grades. you want to be sure to follow those instructions. i am always happy to help someone with a care plan, particularly where it comes to determining the nanda diagnoses. if i do not happen to see anyone's post for help on a careplan, send me a private message. if your instructors detect that you have copied careplans from another source you are going to get into potential trouble and possibly violate your school's plagiarism policy. that said, you can see examples of care plans at these sites:

http://www.rncentral.com/careplans/contents.html - from rn central's care plan corner. here are care plans for 49 basic nursing problems. also includes a template for a blank form you can print out. each care plan gives you the language needed to write the nursing diagnosis statement, suggestions for outcomes, and nursing interventions for that particular problem.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

Oops! Forgot to say Welcome to allnurses! :welcome: Forgive the information about NANDA and nursing diagnosis and you may not need to be using those up in Canada. I wasn't paying attention to you profile as I was answering your post. Sorry.

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Specializes in LPN.

Thanks so much, i do care plans all the time i just seem to be at odds with what im working on and needed some good resources.:)

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Most of these links are no longer available...Does anyone have some that are?

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Specializes in Trauma,ER,CCU/OHU/Nsg Ed/Nsg Research.

Thread moved to Nursing Student Assistance forum to encourage updated answers.

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Have you tried your textbooks? I find appropriate nursing DX all over in the text, then use one of my MANY care plan books to help fill in the blanks. Just be sure to cite references before your turn in the paperwork to your instructor. Also, the Evolve website works great if you register for the Gulanick book.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
neenee2 said:
most of these links are no longer available...does anyone have some that are?

neenee2. . .you are not going to find many free care plans on the internet. it is plagiarism to copy them--and it is my guess that is probably why most of them were removed from the internet. any care plans that are posted on the internet are there for inspection, not to be copied. a care plan for a patient should always be a customized work--in other words, developed specifically for that patient.

these are websites that have care plans, or partial care plans that you can look at. please do not copy and use that information. do your own work or ask for help and i will assist you with constructing and writing a care plan. i do this all the time on the forums:

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Specializes in M/S, Tele, Sub (stepdown), Hospice.

I like to look at parts of a care plan to see if I'm missing something or to add some interventions that I haven't thought of.....never to plagiarize!!! I think that's why alot of us wanna see examples...

Thanks again Daytonite!!! You're always so helpful!!!

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Thanks everyone. Our professor goes over every care plan and reference page to make sure that we never plagerizie. I was mostly looking for ideas, so I could then find information in our text book to use as rationale as well. We are only allowed to use our textbooks, but of course they are fairly limited since we must do 3 different care plans and diagnoses for the 12 weeks that we are in clinics. I am usually exhausted and not very creative at 1:00 a.m. and if I can look at samples of others it gets my brain functioning again. As much as I moan (and do not get much sleep before clinical day) I have learned an incredible amount from doing care plans! And then of course realize, how very little I know as well! Have a wonderful day and thanks again!

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Here's a link to a newer site with a bunch of Free Care plan examples. It looks like someone in nursing school is posting there homework here on a regular basis:

http://www.pterrywave.com/Nursing/Care%20Plans/Nursing%20Care%20Plans%20TOC.aspx

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here are a few care plans i used for school.

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