How long does it take you

blee1 · Mar 6, 2005

holy crap, what am I getting myself into, I start the nursing program next semester, and I asked this question only because I heard of they take a long time... :stone

8, 12, 20 pgs, how the heck are you supposed to do that every week or whatever, I think Im gonna die :crying2:

rngrad2009 · Mar 6, 2005

do you know of any websites that has templates for downloading. I had to do a care plan last week and i was looking all over the place for a template. thank you :stone

Nemhain · Mar 6, 2005

We have to do pt history, labs, drugs, patho & 3 nursing dx/careplans for each patient and we take 3 pts a week. I'm 3rd semester, so I can usually reuse careplans or pathos from previous semesters. That really cuts down on the time. It usually takes me about 6 hours to complete all the paperwork.

HOLY SMOKES! I feel very lucky. We only have to do 2 careplans (which takes me about 2 hours after I've gathered all of the info.) each semester on any two patients we want. In preconference, however, we take about an hour and go over each persons patients and we discuss the collaboratives and possible nrsg dx. The nursing facutly feels that if we did one on every patient that it would take up too much of our study time.

dave1117 · Mar 7, 2005

We do a total of 6 PES style care plans per semester. We do other assessments each week but most of that is done during clinical while we are working with the patient. Plus we only get 1 patient per week which in my opinion is rediculous. I am bored most of the time...

have a nice day, dave :)

BEANURSE · Mar 8, 2005

holy crap, what am I getting myself into, I start the nursing program next semester, and I asked this question only because I heard of they take a long time... :stone
8, 12, 20 pgs, how the heck are you supposed to do that every week or whatever, I think Im gonna die

Don't start to panic yet! It all depends on what your school requires! I was told that too before I started and I MIGHT spend an hour (not including looking up all the meds....that might take another hour on Wednesday nights) on mine and have NEVER had a bad mark on any of them.....I got really good advise from my instructor....If it takes you longer than 30 minutes to come up with a Nursing DX and pick 3-5 interventions for that diagnosis then you are writing on the wrong DX for that particular pt.

But like I said it just all depends on what the school and instructors require!

Don't give up or get stressed YET....Wait until you get into the program to do that :rotfl:

They are very hard at first but you will find a flow that works for you.....and oh yea.....save copies of all your work because some of them can be reused at a later date with a few revisions!!!!!!!

mariedoreen · Mar 8, 2005

holy crap, what am I getting myself into, I start the nursing program next semester, and I asked this question only because I heard of they take a long time... :stone
8, 12, 20 pgs, how the heck are you supposed to do that every week or whatever, I think Im gonna die

You know what? Asking a bunch of nursing students what going to nursing school is like is about the same as asking a bunch of new mothers what labor is like... You're going to hear horror story after horror story and you're gonna wonder what in the heck you've gotten yourself into and you're going to feel as though you could never in a million years do what they're doing. The fact is simply this: you can handle for more than you think you can and nothing you hear is as bad as it sounds... What do they advise pregnant women? Don't listen to bad labor stories? Well, you might want to avoid our tales of woe as well :chuckle

adidas99 · Mar 9, 2005

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wonderbee, BSN, RN · Mar 9, 2005

blee1, 99% of those pages you're stressing over are actually forms to fill out. Some may be flow sheets (circle the appropriate item) and others are sort of fill in the blank spaces. I've never really counted the pages. It varies according to the patients. Med sheets can take a long time for some of the elderly med surg patients. Many first semester instructors believe in a gentler, kinder introduction to care plans and go easy at the very beginning and work up to the frenzied flying paperwork by end of semester. Mine was not one of them and I'm glad she wasn't. A lot of first semester students were totally not prepared for what was expected of them second semester and got ridden a lot by the instructors.

I also never really counted how long it took because I usually break up the task over a period of days. For me, that's the best way to do these. I don't know how someone can do one from start to finish in one sitting. It would drive me bats.

In short, you too can survive writing care plans. They are a fact of nursing school life for all of us and those who have gone before us. You are about to embark on a new experience. Let your motto be "I'm a tree, I can bend".

SCmomof3, RN · Mar 12, 2005

Y'all have me shaking in my boots here LOL! I am starting in August and go back and forth between excitement and terror! I am getting all A's in pre-reqs but I know that means nada LOL

mlcord121 · Mar 12, 2005

Y'all have me shaking in my boots here LOL! I am starting in August and go back and forth between excitement and terror! I am getting all A's in pre-reqs but I know that means nada LOL

I know exactly how you feel, I get so excited to start the nursing classes, then I get so nervous that I get butterflies in my stomach!!! :) All in about 2 seconds! Good luck to you.

SCmomof3, RN · Mar 12, 2005

I know exactly how you feel, I get so excited to start the nursing classes, then I get so nervous that I get butterflies in my stomach!!! :) All in about 2 seconds! Good luck to you.

Thanks, you too:)

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Mar 12, 2005

As sudent took me 2-3hrs care plans for 2 patients, by Senior yr, second semester less than 1 hour.

You can do i! COMPUTERIZE --look at student website links, several re careplans.

NO COMPUTERS :angryfire when I graduated in 1982, just invented precuser called word processor :rotfl: