I need help with a Care plan PLEASE!!!

[mzwest83]

I have a care plan due this week. I know its short notice but the teacher told us it was due the last week of class but the syllabus states this week so I want to be safe then sorry. I have have no clue what I am doing. When I asked the instructor How to do these I was told to get a book. I am strapped for cash and on the wait list at the library thus I am turning to you for help. It has to have 3 nursing diagnoses and be from NANDA. For each diagnosis must have objective and subjective data for a assesment and mds sheets, short and long term goals and out comes and 3 interventions with rationales for each one. each must have a holistic intervetion and rational too.

[laurajbullock]

Do you have a medical dictionary? Do you have a medication book? Look in the back of the dictionary or look up medications the patient is on to formulate a care plan. Also, always remember your ABC's. Airway comes first in priority. Then Breathing. Then Circulation. Hope this gets you started.

[somedaypeds]

I would love to get a response from the OP that she received all of this excellent information that was posted. I wish I had all of this when I had to do my first care plan - and I will certainly save it for the next one!

[badmamajama]

I'm actually amazed that there was no big discussion in class on how to do care plans, and that you only have one to do! Let me ask, in what time frame is this one lonely care plan due? Is this the only one this semester? What semester are you in? In my first semester we probably did 20 care plans before we even started clinicals. They would give us case studies of patients and we would have to formulate a CP based on the case study. We had an extensive lecture on how to do care plans to start us off, which helped. Don't get me wrong, they weren't holding our hands by giving the lecture, they were hardcore. They expected us to think outside the box, be creative without just picking fancy diagnoses to sound smart. For every diagnosis we chose we had to justify why it applied to THIS patient. Part of our pre-clinical paperwork was a full care plan for our patients based on the information they obtained when they went to the facility to determine our assignments. We would have to turn this in before taking our patients the next morning. After we had our first day with the patient and received more accurate information we would need to make changes to the care plan as needed. They did have mercy on us in one aspect; if our patient got discharged or for some reason would not be there for us to keep for day two we did not have to do a new care plan. There was plenty more to do for the new patient that took hours! Believe me, the care plan was by far a small part of the load of stuff we had to do in one night. After doing an endless amount of care plans I realized I was assigning everyone nursing diagnoses in my head. Just as a lot of nurses notice the juicy veins of perfect strangers, I noticed "Risk for Impaired Skin Integrity" or "Risk for Impaired Mobility" everywhere I went for a long time. I think it has helped me be a better nurse. It helps me think ahead to prevent problems the patient may encounter. Of course the only care plans I've done since nursing school require checking boxes and take 5 seconds of my day and probably only get looked at by chart reviewers.

Good luck to you!

[tinyRN72, BSN]

I just want to say that I am currently working on a care plan, actually came here to get a little advice myself. I saw this post and was amazed. My very first book - Fundamentals of Nursing - has tons of care plans in it. I assume that you do have your class books. Take a look in it. In mine, there are example care plans for each disease process discussed. You may not find one that is exactly what what you need, but you will see the format and should be able to follow it pretty closely.

Secondly, for the one I am working on, I just did a google search for "nursing care plans." The first page has 10 sites and everyone of them has fully-written care plans spelled out.

When I have a care plan due, my instructor gives us a form to fill out... take a look through all of your hand-outs. You might find one. If you have an school website check there... look under "documents."

I hope this helps, but honestly, your post didn't really give much to help you with.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

The link above is not the complete list of nanda-I diagnoses by a long shot, although it does include the link to buy the actual book at amazon.

The problem with giving a student just the list of diagnoses is that the student will scan them think that a diagnosis is cool-sounding or perhaps plausible for the medical diagnosis....And will completely miss the concept of assessing the patient for the defining characteristics. Often the resulting "Care plan" tries to cram the (few) available facts into the diagnosis, or misses the mark entirely, resulting in a filled-out format for school but no real learning about an individual patient or how to deal with assessing and caring for one.

[NikiCharles_01]

Hey I don't know if you're still in the same situation now but I definitely know what you're going through... I know this may seem "bad" but what I do is look to see if I could find books online to to download until I'm able to do otherwise. I know you'll find be able to find a lot