Concept Mapping
Concept mapping is a very
useful way to figure out if you have
all the pieces arranged correctly in
your mind about a problem or issue.
In this course, you will be
asked to “map” almost every week
and in the courses to follow, you will
use care mapping for the nursing
care plans.
Therefore, it is a good use of your
time to figure out how to ‘”map”
ASAP. This presentation should help
you.
When you go to EVOLVE and sign in. Find the IGGY book, 5th edition
and selected EVOLVE RESOURCES. The chapters will list
themselves. Select any chapter; a list will show that includes the
Concept Map Creator. Click on the link.
You next screen after instructions looks like this. Type into
the white blank the proble you are mapping. It does not
have to be a medical diagnosis.
In pathophysiology, list the causes of the problem; In
risk factors, list conditions that might make the problem
likely to occur.
Clinical Manifestations are signs and symptoms. List them one by one
in the blank space by using the small numbers on the right.
Nursing
diagnoses
come from
the
NANDA
book.
Collaborative problems and nursing
diagnoses are toggled using the two
buttons to the left.
Use
Collaborative
Problems for
‘other’ pertinent
issues you want
to include. It’s an
‘other’ list.
In the spaces below, enter
nursing diagnoses by choosing
from the drop down list.
Using the small numbers and the buttons to select the information you have
already entered, type in Expected outcomes for your diagnoses AND type in
nursing interventions one by one only for that diagnosis or problem. Do it again
when you change the diagnosis or problem or manifestation.
You will be able to come back and correct this if you don’t like the result,
so feel free to experiment.
Click on the Left
Choice to see
what you have
done. You can go
back and edit over
and over from this
place.
The middle choice produces a pdf
file that can be saved and
attached to your discussions
easily.
The last choice is a ‘table’
that shows you in writing
what your choices have
been. You save it, the open
it.
You can also come
back and add to or
correct later.
Suggestion: Use choice number one while you are working on your map. Use
pdf when you are finished or want to do the rest by hand. Print 2 AND 3 for your
use later. Labs and meds have to be done separately.
This is what we created in this process. RIGHT and WRONG is not
the issue---find out how things work together.