An otherwise healthy, young adult client is admitted for short-term outpatient psychiatric treatment of a single psychiatric condition
The method of documenting the nursing process for this client that would BEST compare observed outcomes with anticipated outcomes for a single nursing diagnosis is the: a. traditional columnar nursing care plan
b. diagrammatic concept map
c. verbatim process recording
d. stages of the nurse-client relationship
A
Nurses have used nursing care plans as tools to document activities described in the nursing process. Traditional care plans have a column format. These plans provide a means to record assessment data, provide a list of nursing diagnoses drawn from the data, record anticipated outcomes of nursing interventions, and present a plan of care that is a statement of nursing interventions to be used. Finally, the nursing care plan provides documentation of the observed outcome, which can be compared to the anticipated outcome. This last item is generally placed in the final column known as the evaluation.
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