Ok I have to ask...but let me first start by saying I understand why we have to learn them!!! This may get a wide range of responses so I had to make that clear. I do plan on taking the step up to RN. I have learned the care plans and feel pretty comfortable writing them. A few of my instructors both young and old say care plans will eventually go to the way side. So I wonder if we will really use them in the future. It does seem useless considering that some of the care plans I have read in my clinical sites have been dated for years and still no complete accomplishment of anything listed on them. So tell me what you think, PLEASE????:bowingpur