Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses - Softcover

Barrett, Wilson and Woollands

Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses

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A step-by-step guide to assessing patients, diagnosing problems, planning goals and interventions, and evaluating progress.

Why is care planning important?

How can you use care planning effectively in your own practice?

Being able to plan the care of patients is one of most important part of a nurse’s role. This book covers both the theory of care planning - the legal and professional issues, nursing models, and the different tools in practice that help you assess patients – and the practice - planning and providing effective care.

Using an interactive approach, the book explores the reasons why care planning is so important, and explains the theory behind the practice.

Three patient scenarios are referred to throughout the second part of the book, with completed care plans for them which you can refer to throughout

Chapters contain research summaries, short activities to test your knowledge and guidance on how to reflect on your own practice.

‘Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses’ has been designed to support nursing students and registered practitioners early in their careers.

"Care Planning - a guide for nurses is brilliant. Care planning is one of my passions ... Through blood, sweat and tears I have worked with 19 nursing homes on introducing a social model care plan - it's now going from strength to strength. I recently got your book and I must say it is marvellous and very well structured." - Claire Welford, National University of Ireland, Galway