Nursing Care Plan Template Printable

Nursing care plan template in five sections

This nursing care plan template follows five steps: assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. It's a PDF for at-home printing.

Nurses and nursing students use it to build a care plan for one patient at a time.

Sections on the care plan

• Assessment, split into subjective and objective data
• Nursing diagnosis: problem, etiology AEB, signs and symptoms
• Planning: goal and outcome
• Implementation
• Evaluation: outcome and evidenced by

Filling in the nursing diagnosis template

The diagnosis section has separate places for the problem, the etiology (AEB) and the signs and symptoms. Students can fill the page in order from assessment down to evaluation, then compare the planned goal with the evaluation outcome.

Sizes & color schemes

You'll get a zipped folder of PDF files in A4 and US Letter sizes. There are 7 color schemes: Rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple), Ocean (blues and greens), Fruity (pinks and purples), Bubblegum (pinks, purples, blues and greens), Flame (reds, oranges and yellows), Forrest (greens) and Bohemian (browns and tans).

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See all printables for nurses & nursing students and printables for caregivers.

This is a record-keeping sheet, not medical advice. Follow your healthcare provider's guidance.

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Unzipping a compressed file

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