care plans

[natty23]

anyone know where i can find a rationale for care planning?
i.e. why certain models are used.
and also is there a national guideline for the planning of care?

many thanks in advance

[larkin]

Sorry natty, are we talking nursing care plans here ?

[natty23]

yes, should have mensioned that :s

[curiosity]

I'm not sure that there is a national guideline for careplanning. I know that nursing models e.g Newmans, Peplaus became popular, if not compulsary in the 90's I believe that nursing models were forced upon us to make sure that somebody had a clue about what they were doing. Good nurses & nursing teams, look at their patients and work around them, not fit their patient into a nursing model, in my view, my model is my patient and their context, that is their lifestyle, family etc and I will use any therapeutic tools I have to help that individual. Care planning is about the individual and the rationale for care planning is basically that it gives you a structured framework to help your patient to the best of your ability, communicating that to the whole team, so you're all singing from the same hymn sheet so to speak. I prefer to use ethical principals as ab ase for my care planning rather than nursing models, nursing models can miss things. Where as ethical principals drive your interest and care and influence your inquisitiveness, and you get far further than you would sticking to a model.