Care Plan

Care Planning: The Who, What, Why and How of Care Plans for Nurses

Contains

1. 82 PowerPoint slides prepared FOR YOU TO TEACH.

2. 'Lecture Notes' to complement the 'Care Plan' PowerPoint presentation

3. 'Handy Resources' document to assist in practical implementation of the Care Plan

4. 'Quiz' for the audience upon completion of the presentation, in order to consolidate their understanding

5. 'Evaluation Form' for the presentation

Goals and Objectives:

After completing this lecture, the audience/student should be able to:

1. Explain what a care plan is.
2. Understand how to practically use care plans.
3. Identify the steps in 'The Nursing Process'.
4. Describe why care plans are necessary.
5. Understand the need for, and certain terms found within, the universal nursing language for care planning and documentation requirements.

You need to be thoroughly conversant with the structure and practicalities of a care plan to teach this material.
The aim of this program is to offer you guidance for your presentation. You may choose to alter material in these slides to suit your needs.

Published: July, 2010

Usage:

In addition to the right to view, save and print the PowerPoint presentations, you have the right to make amendments to the slides as required and to utilise them as a teaching aid. If you choose to amend one or more of the slides in a PowerPoint presentation, you must electronically insert the words ‘adapted from’ before the words © AusmedOnline at the bottom of each slide of the presentation.

Ausmed is not responsible for any changes you make to the content of PowerPoint presentations. You are responsible for ensuring that any changes are accurate and do not affect the accuracy of the parts which you do not change.

Author: Aurora Cyganik-Barker

Aurora Cyganik-Barker, RN, BN is a degree-educated Registered Nurse, who graduated in 2007 with distinction from the University of Calgary. She is currently living and working in Western Canada. Aurora worked as an undergraduate nurse for 2 years while completing her nursing degree in the geriatric assessment unit at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital under geriatricians Dr. Sahiholnasab and Dr. Villaneueva. Her experience has a wide range including working in emergency and the cardiac/ICU step-down unit at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital for 2 years. She also worked during this time at Bow Island Hospital, a rural hospital, where she divided her time between a 10 bed acute wing, a 20 bed long term care wing and a busy outpatient/emergency department. She very recently moved into a Primary Care role in a single physician’s office, concentrating on chronic disease management and prevention. Although chronic disease management is her latest passion, she also has a special love for geriatrics, and has the opportunity to work with many older adults in her current position. She is also a certified massage therapist, Reiki master and has a special interest in alternative and complementary therapies.

Reviewer: Susan Veals

Susan Veals (formerly Susan Veals Onrust) is originally from New York, New York, USA, where she earned a PhD in oncology and immunology from New York University Medical Center's Sackler Institute in 1992. Susan then completed an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, California, USA, before moving to Auckland, New Zealand in 1996. In Auckland, she worked as a staff medical writer of pharmaceutical reviews for Adis International, Ltd. (a division of Wolters Kluwer Health) while completing a Bachelor of Nursing at UNITEC Institute of Technology. She relocated to Seattle, Washington, USA in 2002, and now works as a freelance medical writer and staff RN in psychiatry.

Professional Reviews:

This is very useful.