This article discusses the concept and implication of core care plans. The authors also assess the effect of the introduction of core care plans introduction within the Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Since its adoption from the US some 20 years ago, the nursing process and its essential component the individualised patient care plan, have been promoted as the theoretical and philosophical basis of British nursing and the method of organising and delivering care. It was introduced against a background of discontent with existing ways of nursing and its aim was to integrate nursing theory and practice and implement more satisfactory methods of care delivery (
Nursing Standard. 12, 4, 39-41. doi: 10.7748/ns.12.4.39.s51
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