Nursing Care Plan Library

    Full five-column care plans (assessment → NANDA diagnosis → NOC outcomes → NIC interventions with rationale → evaluation) for the diagnoses you will see most on the wards.

    Quick Answer

    A nursing care plan links five columns: assessment → NANDA-I diagnosis (PES) → NOC outcomes (SMART) → NIC interventions with rationale → evaluation. Prioritize diagnoses using ABC → Maslow → safety → teaching. This library covers eleven high-volume diagnoses: heart failure, sepsis, type 2 diabetes, pneumonia, COPD, hypertension, stroke, acute pain, anxiety, UTI, and post-operative care. Use the care plan builder to generate a scaffold, then replace every column with your own patient's data.

    The five-column care plan structure

    Every nursing care plan uses five linked columns: Assessment data → NANDA-I nursing diagnosis (PES) → NOC outcomes (SMART) → NIC interventions with rationale → Evaluation. Every intervention must tie back to the diagnosis and drive an outcome you can measure.

    Prioritizing diagnoses (ABC / Maslow)

    1. Airway → Breathing → Circulation.
    2. Maslow physiological needs (pain, nutrition, elimination, rest).
    3. Safety (falls, infection).
    4. Psychosocial (anxiety, coping).
    5. Teaching / discharge readiness.

    Disease-specific care plans

    Generate a scaffold in one click

    The care plan builder generates a complete five-column scaffold for the most common ward diagnoses, including rationale for every intervention, which you then rewrite against your own patient's assessment data. Pair it with the PICOT builder when the care plan feeds an EBP or capstone project.

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    → Congestive heart failure (CHF) care plan→ Sepsis / septic shock care plan→ Type 2 diabetes mellitus care plan→ Community-acquired pneumonia care plan→ COPD exacerbation care plan→ Hypertension care plan→ Stroke (CVA) care plan→ Acute pain care plan→ Anxiety care plan→ UTI / CAUTI prevention care plan→ Post-operative care plan