A concept map is an innovative approach using a diagram of patient problems and

Posted: October 28th, 2023

A concept map is an innovative approach using a diagram of patient problems and interventions for planning and organizing nursing care. The basic idea of a concept map is to enrich problem-solving, nursing decision-making, and critical thinking in various situations. The ideas about patient problems and interventions are the concepts.
Instructions:
1. Identify the Patient’s admitting problem and relevant comorbidities as the central concept in the middle of the page.
2. Add the relevant health concern or reason for seeking help.
3. From the main health concerns, add two significant priority nursing diagnoses within the provided shapes on the map template.
4. For each nursing diagnosis, list the subjective and objective data that are associated with the nursing diagnosis.
5. List current information about medical diagnosis, risk factors, diagnostic tests, treatments, and medications under the appropriate nursing diagnosis.
6. List nursing interventions for each diagnosis. Interventions include key areas of assessment that were done, procedures, teaching, and therapeutic communication.
7. Add the expected outcomes associated with the nursing interventions for each nursing diagnosis.
8. Finally, draw lines between concepts to indicate relationships. Link the concepts and related data by different lines (e.g., arrows, straight or broken lines), depending on the nature of the relationship between concepts. On each line, use words such as: related to, contributed to, is necessary; to explain the relationship between linked concepts.
9. Add two short- and long-term goals for each diagnosis, and if each goal was met or unmet