1. Concept Map Care Plans
Innovative approach to planning & organizing nursing care.
Essentially a diagram of patient problems and interventions
Ideas about patient problems and interventions are the “concepts” to be diagrammed.
Enhances critical thinking and clinical reasoning
Used to organize patient data, analyze relationships, establish priorities

2. Theoretical Basis of Concept Maps
Roots in education and psychology
Also known as mind maps, cognitive maps
Concept mapping requires critical thinking
New knowledge is built on preexisting knowledge, new concepts are integrated by identifying relationships

3. Steps in Concept Map Care Planning
Develop a Basic Skeleton Diagram
Analyze and Catagorize Data
Analyze Nursing Diagnoses Relationships
Identifying Goals, Outcomes, & Interventions
Evaluate patient responses