Family Nursing Care Plan (FNCP)

Is the blueprint of the care that the nurse designs to systematically minimize or eliminate
the identified health and family nursing problems through explicitly formulated outcomes of care
(goals and objectives) and deliberately chosen set of interventions, resources and evaluation
criteria, standards, methods and tools.

Features FNCP
a) The nursing care plan focuses on actions which are designed to solve or minimize existing
problem. The plan is a blueprint for action. The cores of the plan are the approaches,
strategies, activities, methods and materials which the nurse hopes will improve the
problem situation.
b) The nursing care plan is a product of a deliberate systematic process. The planning
process is characterized by logical analyses of data that are put together to arrive at
rational decisions. The interventions the nurse decides to implement are chosen from
among alternatives after careful analysis and weighing of available options.
c) The nursing care plan, as with all plans, relates to the future. It utilizes events in the past
and what is happening in the present to determine patterns. It also projects the future
scenario if the current situation is not corrected.
d) The nursing care plan is based upon identified health and nursing problems. The problems
are the starting points for the plan, and the foci of the objectives of care and intervention
measures.
e) The nursing care plan is a means to an end, not an end in itself. The goal in planning is to
deliver the most appropriate care to the client by eliminating barriers to family health
development.
f) Nursing care planning is a continuous process, not a one-shot-deal. The results of the
evaluation of the plan’s effectiveness trigger another cycle of the planning process until
the health and nursing problems are eliminated.

Steps in Making Family Nursing Care Plan

The assessment phase of the nursing process generates the health and nursing problems
which become the bases for the development of nursing care plan. The planning phase takes off
from there.

Formulating a family care plan

involves the following steps:
1. The prioritized condition/s
or problems
2. The goals and objectives of
nursing care
3. The plan of interventions
4. The plan of evaluating care

This is a schematic presentation of

the nursing care plan process. It
starts with a list of health condition
or problems prioritized according to
the nature, modifiability, preventive
potential and salience. The
prioritized health condition or
problems and their corresponding
nursing problems become the basis
for the next step which is the
formulation of goals and objectives
of nursing care. The goals and
objectives specify the expected
health/clinical outcomes, family
response/s, behavior of
competency outcomes.
Source:
Nursing Practice in the Community – Maglaya 4th Ed