NIGHTINGALE COLLEGE
DIRECT-FOCUSED CARE:
CONCEPT MAPPING ASSIGNMENT WORKSHEET
You may use this document to complete your Concept Map and submit it to Canvas, or you may use the template provided within the instructions in Canvas. You don’t need to do both. This is just an alternative if you are having trouble manipulating the original template in Canvas.
NURSING PROCESS TEMPLATE:
Assessment (Recognizing Cues)
Which patient information is relevant? What patient data is most important? Which patient information is of immediate concern? Consider signs and symptoms, lab work, patient statements, H & P, and others. Consider subjective and objective data.
Analysis (Analyzing Cues)
Which patient conditions are consistent with the cues? Do the cues support a particular patient condition? What cues are a cause for concern? What other information would help to establish the significance of a cue?
Analysis (Prioritizing Hypotheses)
What explanations are most likely? What is the most serious explanation? What is the priority order for safe and effective care?
Planning (Generate Solutions)
What are the desirable outcomes? What interventions can achieve these outcomes? What should be avoided? (SMART Planning- specific, measurable, attainable, realistic/relevant, time-restricted- Goal setting)
Implementation (Take actions)
How should the intervention or combination of interventions be performed, requested, communicated, taught, etc.? What are the priority interventions? (Mark with asterisk)
Evaluation (Evaluating Outcomes)
What signs point to improving/declining/unchanged status? What interventions were effective? Are there other interventions that could be more effective? Did the patient’s care outlook or status improve?
CONCEPT MAP TEMPLATE:
Nursing Process Template
(All 6 areas of the Nursing Process Template should be thoroughly completed. The SBAR information below is correctly and thoroughly identified, and in the right format. The chosen concept is clearly identified below.)
Patient Information (SBAR)
(Use SBAR format. See ELO for proper SBAR format.)
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Main Concept (Should be focus of below map)
(You may only use a concept ONCE per semester. The Giddens text lists concepts. No medical or nursing diagnoses.)
Concept:
Recognizing Cues (S&S)
(Identify at least 4 critical cues that are significant and could impact the patient condition. May consider both subjective and objective data.)
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Disease Process/Pathophysiology/Risk Factors
(Thorough review of the disease process pathophysiology and identify risk factors)
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Analyzing Cues/Conditions
(Based on identified cues, create 3 to 4 supporting connections between the relevant cues and client conditions/problems.)
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Prioritizing Hypotheses
(Based on identified connections between cues and patient conditions/problems, identify and RANK 3 client conditions/problems critical to positive patient outcomes, with the most urgent problem first.)
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SMART PLANNING: Generate Solutions/Outcomes/Interventions
(List 5 solutions/outcomes with appropriate nursing interventions that will positively impact client outcomes and are appropriate to the care of the client. Outcomes/goals are listed in SMART format.)
(ex: Within 30 minutes of breathing treatment and application of supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula, client will obtain and maintain oxygen saturation levels >95%.)
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Taking Action – (How To)
(Describe how each of the 5 identified nursing interventions will be performed, implemented, administered, communicated, or taught.)
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Evaluating Outcomes
(Describe how you will determine the effectiveness of the 5 priority nursing interventions you implemented. How will you know if your interventions are effective or not?)
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