- Compare and contrast initial planning, ongoing planning, and discharge planning.
- Identify activities that occur in the planning process.
- Explain how standards of care and preprinted care plans can be individualized and used in creating a comprehensive nursing care plan.
- Identify essential guidelines for writing nursing care plans.
- Identify factors that the nurse must consider when setting priorities.
- State the purposes of establishing client goals/desired outcomes.
- Describe the relationship of goals/desired outcomes to the nursing diagnoses.
- Identify guidelines for writing goals/desired outcomes.
- Discuss the Nursing Outcomes Classification, including an explanation of how to use the outcomes and indicators in care planning.
- Describe the process of generating and choosing nursing interventions.
- List the five components of a nursing order.
- Discuss the Nursing Interventions Classification, including an explanation of how to use the interventions and activities in care planning.
