In nursing school you write "formal" care plans.
Being a student is all about learning to think like a nurse in all the RIGHT (i.e., "approved" or "authorized") ways.
To illustrate this, let's compare "care planning" to all things equestrian. Different types of riders have their own notions about what RIGHT horsemanship is. Look at the horse and rider to the left. They are performing to some exacting standards established by the International Equestrian Federation. The IEF has defined "dressage" (druh-SAGZH) as "the highest expression of horse training"
Being a student is all about learning to think like a nurse in all the RIGHT (i.e., "approved" or "authorized") ways.
To illustrate this, let's compare "care planning" to all things equestrian. Different types of riders have their own notions about what RIGHT horsemanship is. Look at the horse and rider to the left. They are performing to some exacting standards established by the International Equestrian Federation. The IEF has defined "dressage" (druh-SAGZH) as "the highest expression of horse training"
Similarly, there is an organization for "Defining the Knowledge of Nursing". For some number of semesters, you've probably been drawing upon their hard and exacting work. You've doubtless used a text that lists all 216 "NANDA-I" diagnoses, as well as the associated outcomes (NOC... or "Nursing Outcomes Classifications") and interventions (NIC... or "Nursing Interventions Classifications").
Altogether, NANDA-I has assembled a "comprehensive, research based, standardized classification [schema] of nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and nursing sensitive patient outcomes [that] provide[s] a set of terms to describe nursing judgments, treatments and nursing sensitive outcomes."
Altogether, NANDA-I has assembled a "comprehensive, research based, standardized classification [schema] of nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and nursing sensitive patient outcomes [that] provide[s] a set of terms to describe nursing judgments, treatments and nursing sensitive outcomes."