need help with a care plan

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My instructor assigned me a specific care plan. She said my nursing diagnosis is going to be "affectional adequacy." It's an interdependence care plan from the Roy model. This dx is not in my NANDA book so I'm struggling with it. I've never tried to create a care plan without my NANDA book. I have another book: "The Roy Adaptation Model" 3rd ed. but i don't find it very helpful, probably because i've never tried to create a care plan with it... all i got from it was a definition of affectional adequacy. can anyone here offer some guidance, tips, resources to help me create this care plan? i don't even know where to start. My pt information is as follows:

2 year old male admitted for a fever. hx of surgeries & hospitalizations due to congenital defect

Behaviors include:

mom and dad stayed with child during entire hospitalization (O, A)

mom sat on bed with child, played with toy trucks together (O, A)

during ultrasound, dad states, "it's be okay. it'll be over soon. I'm right here, buddy" (O,A)

during ultrasound, mom held child's hand (O, A)

after educating parents about offering more fluids to child, mom asked, "could you please bring us some milk cartons?" (O,A)

aunt and brothers visited (O, A)

I wound up doing a totally new care plan with a difference dx with my instructor's permission. A couple other students did this "affectional adequacy" care plan by taking ideas of interventions/goals from other diagnoses in the NANDA book like "family coping, readiness for enhanced" (or something) and used those to "maintain the affectional adequacy of the family" or some BS like that. Idk it didn't make a whole lotta sense to me.

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