NURSING CARE PLANS

COMPONENTS OF NURSING CARE PLANS

regarding the incidence or prevalence of the problem or diagnosis, a brief overview of the typical management and/or the focus of nursing care, and a description of the setting in which care for the particular problem or diag¬nosis can be expected to occur.
Each problem or diagnosis is accompanied by one or several cross-references, some of which may be synonyms. These cross-references assist the user in locating other in¬formation that may be helpful and also in deciding whether this particular care plan is indeed the one the user needs.
Nursing care plan in this article begins with an expanded definition of the title problem or diagnosis. These definitions made enough information to guide the user what the problem or diagnosis is, information
For each care plan, appropriate nursing diagnoses are developed, each with the following components :
 Related or risk factors (depending on wether the nursing diagnosis is actually a problem or one for which the individual is at risk)
 Defining characteristic
 Ongoing assessment
 Therapeutic intervention, both independent and collaborative
 Expected outcomes
Wherever possible, expanded rationales assist the user in understanding the information presented, this allows for use of Nursing Care Plans: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention as a singular reference tool. The interven¬tions and supporting rationales for each care plan repre¬sent current research-based knowledge and evidence ¬based clinical practice guidelines for nursing and other health care professionals. Many care plans also refer the user to additional diagnoses that may be pertinent and would assist the user in further developing a plan of care. Each diagnosis developed in these care plans also identi¬fies the Iowa Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) interventions and the Iowa Nursing Outcomes Classi¬fication(NOC)