FAMILY NURSING CARE PLAN

Definition
▪ Is the blueprint of the care that the nurse designs to systematically minimize or
eliminate the identified health and family nursing problems through explicitly
formulated outcomes of care (goals and objectives) and deliberately chosen set
of interventions, resources, and evaluation criteria, standards, methods, and
tools.

Features FNCP
1. The nursing care plan focuses on actions that are designed to solve or minimize
the existing problem. The plan is a blueprint for action. The cores of the plan are
the approaches, strategies, activities, methods, and materials which the nurse
hopes will improve the problem situation.

2. The nursing care plan is a product of a deliberate systematic process. The

planning process is characterized by logical analyses of data that are put
together to arrive at rational decisions. The interventions the nurse decides to
implement are chosen from among alternatives after careful analysis and
weighing of available options.

3. The nursing care plan, as with all plans, relates to the future. It utilizes events in
the past and what is happening in the present to determine patterns. It also
projects the future scenario if the current situation is not corrected.

4. The nursing care plan is based on identified health and nursing problems. The
problems are the starting points for the plan and the foci of the objectives of care
and intervention measures.

5. The nursing care plan is a means to an end, not an end in itself. The goal in
planning is to deliver the most appropriate care to the client by eliminating
barriers to family health development.

6. Nursing care planning is a continuous process, not a one-shot deal. The results
of the evaluation of the plan’s effectiveness trigger another cycle of the planning
process until the health and nursing problems are eliminated.
Steps in Making Family Nursing Care Plan
▪ The assessment phase of the nursing process generates the health and nursing
problems which become the basis for the development of a nursing care plan.
The planning phase takes off from there.

Formulating a family care plan involves the following steps:

1. The prioritized condition/s or problems
2. The goals and objectives of nursing care
3. the plan of interventions
4. The plan of evaluating care

This is a schematic presentation of the nursing care plan

process. It starts with a list of health condition or problems
prioritized according to the nature, modifiability, preventive
potential and salience. The prioritized health condition or
problems and their corresponding nursing problems
become the basis for the next step which is the formulation
of goals and objectives of nursing care. The goals and
objectives specify the expected health/clinical outcomes,
family response/s, behavior of competency outcomes.
SAMPLE FAMILY CARE PLAN
ACTIVITY

Problem:

Family Bautista is living at Barangay Dugan, in the Municipality of Manlapaz, they

are a family of seven. The father is Erick Bautista is married to Carla Bautista, they
have 5 children, Julie the eldest is 20 years old, next is Glenn aged 19, then Sarah 15
years old, Edelaine 3 years old, and 5-month-old Zandra.
Erick is a tricycle driver, and he has an income of an average of 200 pesos daily and
Carla is a vendor in a fruit stand stall in their public market whom she earns 150 pesos
daily. Their eldest stopped her study to tend to their youngest sister. Glenn the
second-born Glenn is a working student having part-time work in construction
during weekends. Sarah is not going to school because of her health condition, she
suffers from bone malformation and she has difficulty walking. Edelaine is visibly
suffering malnutrition in which she has a BMI below normal.

Erick and Carla are both in their senior age, in which both of them are suffering from
fluctuating blood pressures, which they tend to miss their work when they suffer from
high blood pressure. They seek medical attention in their Rural health unit and was
prescribed maintenance medication for hypertension. However, with the limited
resources that they have, they were not able to buy their medication.
They are living in a semi-concrete house with only 2 rooms, a kitchen, a living room
that transform into the sleeping area of the husband and wife at night. They have a
visibly dilapidated walls and roofing that cause water seepage in the interior part of
their house. They have a comfort room; however, they don’t have a sufficient supply
of water, they fetch their water in a deep well that is owned by their neighbor 50
meters away, and they fetch their drinking water also in their relatives situated 100
meters away from their house.
ACTIVITY:
Create a Family Care Plan base on the problem above. Using the guide above, and the format below:
FAMILY NURSING CARE PLAN

Family Family Goal of Objective Intervention Evaluation

Health Nursing Care of Care Nursing Rationale Methods of Required
Problem Problem Intervention Family Resources
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