How do you feel about care plans?

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I know how I feel about them:no:. How about you?

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Dear, goodness. Why are you making so many threads in such a short amount of time?

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Again, because I'm interested. Now, if that somehow bothers you, then dismiss yourself. Simple. Problem solved. Right?

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Specializes in Dialysis.
Again, because I'm interested. Now, if that somehow bothers you, then dismiss yourself. Simple. Problem solved. Right?

It was a simple question. No need to be defensive....

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Again, because I'm interested. Now, if that somehow bothers you, then dismiss yourself. Simple. Problem solved. Right?

Well, when you fill up a huge part of the forum with 10+ threads in 10 minutes, it is bound to draw some questions. And I'm free to respond to whichever threads I'd like.

There's a search bar that can answer many of the questions you asked about (No sarcasm is in this post. There is a lot of great insight on some of these topics that you could search through and find some helpful tidbits).

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Specializes in critical care.

What do you perceive care planning to be, OP? I'm curious, since you haven't yet started a program, but your mind is turned off to them already.

I hated the time invested, because I had no time to invest. But I loved that they forced me to think through ADPIE and prioritize needs. There comes a time in every nurse's career when they realize something huge is happening, they have multiple things that urgently need to be addressed, and they are the ones in the room to call the shots. Where do you start? HOW do you start? What is the end result of each thing if addressed properly? If ignored? What can wait? What can't? And, honestly, what is incapable of being fixed? Not everything needs intervention.

That is what care planning teaches you - it is a safe environment to put together every single piece, and decide as the one nurse in the room to call the shots - what do you do, how do you do it, and how will you know if it did/didn't work? Care planning is your way of learning the nursing process, and you get an instructor as a resource to help you refine your own nursing process.

What gets really challenging is breaking the mold of "there is one right answer", to step outside that box and know there are many right answers, and if you can adequately justify why yours is the top answer, you aren't wrong.

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Thank you for your positive and relevant response. I am currently in nursing school. I am not necessarily turned off by careplans--they are necessary. It's just that the careplans I've seen in the actual hospital setting are much more simpler than the 25 pages I have to complete during clinical. It is indeed a learning process.

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No defense at all...it just becomes irritating when the same person makes the same statements on my other posts. Just stop trolling is all I'm saying. I am looking for positive feedback not drama.

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Specializes in critical care.
Thank you for your positive and relevant response. I am currently in nursing school. I am not necessarily turned off by careplans--they are necessary. It's just that the careplans I've seen in the actual hospital setting are much more simpler than the 25 pages I have to complete during clinical. It is indeed a learning process.

True, but the expectation is that by the time you get to the hospital, you understand the basics that you have had o expand on now. If your patient when you are a nurse has a high potassium and a lot of ectopy, you can initiate a care plan about electrolytes imbalance, and know it's relevant because telemetry shows changes. You wouldn't need to go into huge detail in the hospital. But in school, your clinical instructor doesn't know that you understand the connection between telemetry and potassium. What if it's a dialysis patient? In your school care plans, you'll need to go into significant detail as to WHY that is relevant, because otherwise, your professor doesn't know if you fully understand why that matters. On the job? It's obvious that is relevant and we all know why. Keep it simple.

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Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.
Thank you for your positive and relevant response. I am currently in nursing school. I am not necessarily turned off by careplans--they are necessary. It's just that the careplans I've seen in the actual hospital setting are much more simpler than the 25 pages I have to complete during clinical. It is indeed a learning process.

Our careplans in LTC are approx 15 pages.

However working in the acute area careplans are 2 sides of an A4 page

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.
Dear, goodness. Why are you making so many threads in such a short amount of time?

"Tis odd. Such a blast of questions.

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Specializes in Ortho.

I hate care plans. I understand that it's a necessity and enables one to connect the dots and apply the nursing process. I'm just not sure how much it enforces those connections. It really hits home for me when I actually see the patient and the symptoms in real life. I'm sure care plans have helped to facilitate that recognition. They still suck.

Hopefully it will serve me well when I begin my career.

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