Nursing Care Plan - Characteristics

Characteristics

1. Its focus is holistic, and is based on the clinical judgment of the nurse, using assessment data collected from a nursing framework.
2. It is based upon identifiable nursing diagnoses (actual, risk or health promotion) - clinical judgments about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes.
3. It focuses on client-specific nursing outcomes that are realistic for the care recipient
4. It includes nursing interventions which are focused on the etiologic or risk factors of the identified nursing diagnoses.
5. It is a product of a deliberate systematic process.
6. It relates to the future.