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PLANNING
INTRODUCTION
Planning is a deliberative, systematic phase of
the nursing process.
Involves decision making and problem solving.
Refer to the clients assessment data and
diagnostic statements for direction in
formulating client goals and designing the
nursing interventions required to prevent reduce
or eliminate the clients health problems.
DEFINITATION
Plan is a scheme, program, or method worked
out beforehand for the accomplishment of an
objective. A category of nursing behaviour in
which a strategy is designed to achieve the goals
of care for an individual patient, as established
in assessing and analyzing.
Planning (also called forethought) is the process
of thinking about and organizing the activities
required to achieve a desired goal. A nursing
care plan is a part of the nursing process which
outlines the plan of action that will be
implemented during a patients medical care.
TYPES OF PLANNING
1. Initial planning
.Admission assessment based on the initial care.
.As nurse obtain new information and evaluate
the clients responses to care, they can
individualize the initial care plan further.
2. Ongoing Planning
.Done by all nurses who work with the client.
.Ongoing planning also occurs at the beginning of
a shift as the nurse plans the care.
.Purposes of ongoing planning
a. To determine any changes in clients health
status.
b. To set priorities for the clients care
c. To decide which problems to focus on during the
shift
d. To Co-ordinate the nurses activities so that more
than one problem can be addressed at each client
contact.
3. Discharge planning
.Is the process of anticipating and planning for
needs after discharge,
.Is a crucial part of comprehensive health care
and should be addressed in each clients care
plan to be given that day.
Setting priorities
Establishing client goals/ desired outcomes.
Selecting nursing interventions
Writing nursing orders
1. Setting priorities
. It is the process of establishing a preferential
sequence for addressing nursing diagnoses &
interventions.
.The client & nurse decides which nursing
diagnosis requires attention Primarily, which
secondary and so on.
.Instead of rank ordering diagnoses, nurses can
group then as having high, Medium, or Low
priority requires minimal nursing support.
. High: Life threatening problems such as loss of
respiratory or cardiac function
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