Teaching the Nursing Process-Based Care Plan in Turkey

The nursing process is a systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care. Nursing theorists first offered planning nursing care with the nursing process approach in 1958. From this time, it has been taught in nursing schools and has been the cornerstone of nursing care delivery. The nursing process based care plan implementation provides an organizing framework for the practice of nursing, and standardized, holistic, patient-centered care, as well as record and assess the efficacy of that care. But its success depends largely on how well it is taught. When examined from this aspect, the findings of the studies indicate that nurses and nursing students still need to fully understand the Nursing Process in order to create a good care plan with the nursing process. The purpose of this paper, from the perspective of teaching methods, is to discuss the factors that limit students' learning of the nursing process approach and care plan preparation skills.