Nursing Care Plans

Chapter 4: Nursing Care Plans

Overview:

• Describes how Nursing Care Plans are used to individualise care
• Outlines the benefits and problems of Nursing Care Plans
• Discusses the different views of nursing
• Discusses the purpose of aged care and residents’ needs
• Describes nursing-care paths

Description:

This chapter discusses the use of nursing-care plans (NCPs) in residential aged-care facilities. The purpose of NCPs is to provide individualised nursing care, but they have not always achieved their intended purpose. Nurses and their professional organisations will need to think strategically about nursing care and how it is planned and implemented.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Individualising nursing care
• Benefits and problems of NCPs
  • Benefits
  • Problems
• Different views of nursing
• Residents’ needs and the purpose of aged care
• Nursing-care paths
• Conclusion

Speaker/Author:

Shirley Schulz-Robinson
Shirley has worked for 30 years as a clinician and manager in various practice settings including psychiatric nursing, developmental disability nursing, medical and surgical nursing, women’s health and community health. For 19 years she worked in nurse education, including terms as the clinical director and assistant dean in the Faculty of Nursing at Newcastle University (Australia). Shirley’s research interests include community-health nursing, health policy and collaborative health-promotion strategies with patients and communities. Her current research has demonstrated that much of the work undertaken by nurses is hidden, and that it is commonly attributed to the efforts of other professions.

Shirley has been chairperson of the Hunter Chapter of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia, president of the New South Wales Community Health Association, a member of the Public Health Research and Development Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) and a member of the New South Wales Nurses Tribunal. Shirley retired from Newcastle University in 2003 to devote more time to writing and consulting.

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