Research Article

Nursing Students’ Competency about Writing Nursing Care Plan: An Exploratory Study in Iran

Table 2

The status of Iranian nursing student survey on writing nursing care plan (N = 248).

ItemsMeanSD

Data gathering (D)3.40 good0.734
(1) I utilize therapeutic communication all throughout the duration of patient assessment3.330.831
(2) I maximize my time during the entire course of patient-nurse interaction3.400.985
(3) I find it easy to recognize irregularities from normal to abnormal changes based on my assessment3.380.915
(4) I utilize systematic way in collecting my objective data like Gordon’s Assessment or any other pertinent assessment tool3.450.980
(5) I make sure that the client’s given data are coherent3.420.923

Identification of client’s problems (P)3.40 good0.738
(6) I determine my client’s needs based from my assessment based from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs3.420.999
(7) I categorize my client’s needs based from the various types of nursing diagnoses like actual, risk, wellness, syndrome, and possible3.420.991
(8) I am aware of the various ways on how to formulate good nursing diagnoses3.430.958
(9) I understand the different terminologies used in formulating nursing diagnosis3.351.039
(10) I use and refer to NANDA resources every time I formulate my client’s nursing diagnosis3.341.034

Sustainable goals (G)3.31 good0.777
(11) I specify in my planning the recipient and reason for formulating the nursing care plan3.341.078
(12) I look on the measurable quantifiers that will be used as parameters for my planning3.331.052
(13) I make sure that the goals and objectives I set for my nursing care plan are attainable3.301.038
(14) I see to it that my nursing care plan is realistic and does not only base from imagination3.311.062
(15) I put time frame whenever I formulate my nursing care plan for evaluation3.280.998

Appropriateness of intervention (I)3.30 good0.679
(16) I assessed my patient before I start my interventions to come up with baseline data and use it as my parameters for ongoing evaluation3.320.978
(17) I based my independent interventions based from the identified needs of my patient3.351.012
(18) I put stand-alone rationales in all the nursing interventions I plan to implement for my patient3.280.965
(19) I resort getting doctor’s orders when I am planning for my nursing interventions especially with pharmacological, medical and surgical treatments and modalities3.320.990
(20) I incorporate interdependent collaborations with various healthcare departments whenever I plan care for my client3.200.966

Recognizing outcomes (O)3.37 good0.690
(21) I re-assess my patient after all the nursing interventions done3.381.007
(22) I go back to my nursing diagnosis if my nursing care plan answered the client’s health needs3.400.989
(23) I seek back to my planning’s goals and objectives if I have achieved my SMART plan3.450.955
(24) I evaluate all the nursing interventions done to my client to check and validate its appropriateness and effectiveness3.351.062
(25) I review my nursing care plan and decide whether to terminate, continue and change it after series of evaluation3.291.093

Total3.35 good0.576

Note. Interpretation: excellent = 4.21–5.0; very good = 3.41–4.20; good = 2.61–3.40; fair = 1.81–2.60; poor = 1.00–1.80.