Family Nursing Care Plan (FNCP)

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 which are designed to
solve or minimize 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 upon 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 bases for the development
of nursing care plan. The planning phase takes off from there.
Formulating a family care plan involves the following steps:
1.
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.