Concept mapping: a critical-thinking approach to care planning

Concept mapping is a clear, visual, and systematic model for gathering and categorizing relevant assessment data, identifying patient problems, and developing patient goals, interventions, and outcomes for each nursing diagnosis. A concept map is your guide to nursing care in any clinical setting.;'Twas the night before clinical -- Gathering clinical data : the framework for concept care map -- Patient concept care mapping : grouping clinical data in a meaningful manner -- Nursing strategies to attain outcomes : so many problems, so little time -- Nursing implementation : using concept care maps as nursing care plans at the health care agency -- Including psycho-social-cultural problems in the concept care maps -- Concept care maps as the basis of documentation and phone conversations with physicians -- After the clinical day is over : patient evaluations, self-evaluations, and grading the final concept care maps.