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Nursing Care Plan: Guide with Example & Writing Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

A nursing care plan documents how to identify a patients needs and facilitate holistic care, typically according to a five-step framework. A plan of care ensures collaboration among nurses, patients and other healthcare providers. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 What Is the Purpose of the Nursing Care Plan?

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Oncology Nurse Navigation and the DNP-Prepared Nurse

American Nurse

The benefits of navigation in avoiding treatment delays, improving patient adherence to treatment, enabling early diagnosis and early stage of the disease, and enhancing clinical outcomes after cancer diagnosis have been documented and proven beneficial in the literature (Rodrigues et al.,