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32-ch 18 294-298 ch 20 338-33920 pg 338-33920 pg 338-33920 pg 338-339
*Informal care plans: strategy for action that exists in the nurse’s mind.
*Formal care plans: a written or computerized guide that organizes information about the client’s care. The obvious benefit of a formal written care plan is that it provides for continuity of care.
- Standardized care plan (includes collaborative): formal plan that specifies the nursing care for groups of clients with common needs. Preprinted guides for the nursing care of a client who has a need that arises frequently in the agency. Written from the perspective of what care the client can expect and should not be confused with standards of care. Developed to save documentation time. May be based on institutions standards of practice, thereby helping to provide a high quality of nursing care. Collaborative specifies outcomes and interventions and also includes medical treatments to be performed by other health care providers as well
+provide detailed interventions and contain additions or deletions from the standards of care of the agency.
+ Minimum acceptable standards are met
+ They promote efficient use of nurses’ time by removing the need to author common activities that are done over and over for many of the clients on a nursing unit
- Individualized care plan (I think it is also referred to as a traditional care plan): tailored to meet the unique needs of a specific client- needs that are not addressed by the standardized plan. Written for each client
+specifies outcomes and nursing interventions to address client problems.


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