care planing

Care Plan Constructor

This tool enables you to create customized plans of care by selecting items from many of the Nursing Diagnoses found in the 5th edition, as well as adding your own.

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Start New Plan

1. Select a Diagnosis
2. Add Your Own Diagnosis
3. View Current Care Plan
4. Start New Care Plan

Instructions

1. To include Risk Factors, Outcomes, Interventions and Rationales from the book: Select a nursing diagnosis from the list of Care Plans.
2. This part of the Care Plan Constructor works much like an online shopping cart. Check the items on the Nursing Diagnosis page to include in your Plan of Care--you will have the opportunity to edit these later. Unchecking selected items on this page removes them from your Care Plan. If you want to clear all selections, select Start New Care Plan.
3. Return to the Constructor Home page to select other diagnoses.
4. Once you have completed all your selections, select Create the Care Plan or View Current Care Plan.

1. To create/add your own Risk Factors, Outcomes, Interventions and Rationales: Select Add Your Own Diagnosis and begin editing.

1. Editing your Care Plan: If you selected items made available from the book, you will see them at the top of the Care Plan Editing page. At the bottom of the page you may add your own nursing diagnosis.
2. Unless you select Start New Care Plan, your selections will remain selected for eight hours so you can edit them repeatedly.
3. Important: Any additions or edits you make to this page are sent forward to the next page by the Update and Create Printable Plan of Care buttons, but they are not retained for later retrieval. If you want to add more selections from the book, do so before using the Care Plan Editing page.
4. Add your client's name in the box provided at the top of the page.
5. The drop down box allows you to select either Independent (disc) or Collaborative (Triangle) for each Intervention you create.
6. Use the box provided and Update buttons to add more Outcomes and Interventions.
7. Each section may be included or excluded from the Printable Plan of Care by using the "Included on printed Care Plan" checkbox.
8. After you have made all your additions and edits, select Create Printable Plan of Care. The next page may be printed for your use.
Help us improve the Care Plan Constructor by alerting us to printing problems.
9. Hint: If you know HTML, you can alter the appearance of some items by including HTML tags in the editable content boxes.

1. Printing Care Plans You may print a completed care plan directly from your browser.
Netscape Printing Help | Microsoft Internet Explorer Printing Help
2. When you create a printable care plan, the plan will launch in a new window. To print from this window, press the Ctrl-P while that window is active.

1. Saving Care Plans Saving (works best in Netscape 4) — be sure to name your file carefully and save it somewhere you'll find it later.
1. Netscape 4: File-Save As from your browser. In the File Name box, give the page a name and the extension ".txt" — for example, if you call the page mytestcareplan, add the extension ".txt", so the full file name will be mytestcareplan.txt. You will now have an ASCII text version of the Care Plan that may be edited using your text editor or word processing software (eg, Word, WordPerfect).
2. Netscape 6+: File-Save Page As from your browser. You will now have an HTML version of the Care Plan that may be edited using an HTML editor (eg, Composer, HoTMetaL, FrontPage).
3. Internet Explorer 4: File-Save As from your browser and select Save as type: Text File. You will now have an ASCII text version of the Care Plan that may be edited using your text editor or word processing software (eg, Word, WordPerfect). If you Save as type: HTML File you will instead create an HTML version of the Care Plan that may be edited using an HTML editor (eg, Composer, HoTMetaL, FrontPage).
4. Internet Explorer 5+: File-Save As from your browser and select Save as type: Text File. You will now have an ASCII text version of the Care Plan that may be edited using your text editor or word processing software (eg, Word, WordPerfect). If you Save as type: Web Page, HTML Only (do not use Web Page, Complete) you will instead create an HTML version of the Care Plan that may be edited using an HTML editor (eg, Composer, HoTMetaL, FrontPage).