Nursing Students General Students
Published Feb 28, 2007
angelwings33
30 Posts
I am just asking for some help on my Teaching care plan I have such a time with it I have tried to put one together for three days and I am just stumped and I really dont know why its so difficult I was hoping someone could get me started like give me ideals on it... the patient was a female 56 her diagnosis Ulcerative colitis and I need to teach her stuff LOL So like I was thinking Knowledge readiness for enhanced R/T unfamiliarity with condition, medications, and diet As evidenced by "I want to know more about this condition, like how to eat and what meds I will have to take"
We have to have 2 short term goals and one long term and 5 interventions this is where i get totally stuck UGH! Help please
RNSuzq1, RN
449 Posts
Hi Angel,
I'm sending a site I used all through school to do my care plans. Just follow the instructions and it will generate a plan for you - it comes up with a Nursing Diagnosis, big list of goals, interventions, etc. Saved me and all my classmates tons of time, let me know if this helps. Sue..
http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/MERLIN/Gulanick/Constructor/#New
Achoo!, LPN
1,749 Posts
For short term outcomes you could have that the pt will verbalize "blah blah" by the end of the shift. Whether it be signs and symptoms to report, how to take meds properly, whatever it is she needs help with.
You could also do " pt will demonstrate blah blah by the end of the shift."
Daytonite, BSN, RN
1 Article; 14,604 Posts
Goals are usually determined from the defining characteristics (symptoms) the patient is exhibiting. In this case your patient has told you that she wants to know more about her condition, what she should be eating and what medications she will have to take. Those will become your goals, like this:
Short term:
Long term:
The important thing that you need to take note of here is that you must have nursing interventions that address these goals, and that your goals reflect back on what your patient's problems are. So, if you were to use any of these particular goals (and I'm not suggesting that you do, just listing them as examples for you), you would have interventions to match with them, such as:
Do you see how it all links together?
Wow thank you all for the help I am working on it as we speak thanks bunches you guys are the best!