Care Planning (NUR4032) Practice Flashcards

A set of vocabulary flashcards based on the NUR4032 Care Planning lecture, covering clinical reasoning, plan types, person-centred care models, and legal frameworks.

Care Plan

A written document that identifies a patient’s needs, goals, and the actions required to meet those goals, explicitly stating who is responsible for each action.

Clinical Reasoning Cycle

A framework described by Rowberry et al. (2023)

Consider the situation

Collect information

Process information

Identify problem

Establish goals

Take action

Evaluate outcomes

Reflect.

NMC Standards of Proficiency

Regulatory requirements that student nurses must meet, including the ability to undertake person-centred nursing assessments and develop appropriate care plans.

Individualised Care Plan

A planning approach tailored from scratch to a patient’s unique needs based on a thorough holistic assessment.

Standardised Care Plans

Evidence-based, pre-written care plans for people with specific needs or groups of patients, such as catheter care bundles or falls prevention.

Care Pathways (Integrated Care Pathways)

Multidisciplinary route maps outlining structured, evidence-based care protocols and key milestones from admission to discharge for specific patient groups.

VIPS Mnemonic

Value base

Individualised approach

Perspective of the person

Social environment.

PRODUCT Mnemonic

Patient Centred

Recordable

Observable/measurable

Directive

Understandable

Credible

Time related.

SMART Goals

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Relevant

Time bound

Roper-Logan-Tierney Model

A nursing model based on the activities of daily living ADL

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Legislation protecting individuals unable to participate in decision-making, grounded in principles such as assuming capacity and acting in the person's best interest.

Principle 1 of the Mental Capacity Act

The requirement to assume a person has capacity unless there is evidence otherwise.

Principle 5 of the Mental Capacity Act

The requirement to look for the least restrictive option that will meet the person's needs.

Advanced Care Planning

A voluntary process of person-centred discussion about an individual's future care preferences and priorities, conducted while they still have capacity.

ReSPECT

Emergency care planning forms used widely in place of traditional DNACPR (Do Not Attempt CPR) forms.