Care plans are becoming obsolete. Are there other heuristic devices for students?
Yes! On clinical preparation sheets, students can identify comfort needs in four contexts: physical (see above definition of physical comfort), psychospiritual, social, and environmental. Students should list, in another section, the intervening variables so a full picture of each patient emerges. Then, they can list interventions, patients perception of comfort after the interventions, what next, realistic health seeking behaviors, and expected insitutiional outcomes (patient satisfaction is the easiest).
