Nurse Life Care Planning

Do you know…

Nurses assist attorneys in determining the cost of future medical care for their clients?

A SPECIALTY FOR WHICH

NURSES ARE UNIQUELY

SUITED

Life Care Planning

Who Needs Them? How Are They Used?

• Personal Injury Attorneys• Defense Attorneys• Casualty Insurance Carriers• Divorce & Family Law

Attorneys• Estate Planners• Advocacy Groups• Rehabilitation Centers

• Catastrophic Injury• Spinal Cord Injury• Burns & Amputations• Neonatal & Pediatric• Traumatic Brain Injury• Geriatric Population

Life Care Plans

A LIFE CARE PLAN IS A TOOL

USED FOR ESTIMATING THE

FUTURE COST OF CARE OVER THE CLIENT’S

ESTIMATED LIFE SPAN

What is a Life Care Plan?

Nurses are uniquely qualified

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Nurses

are uniquely

qualified

to develop

Life Care Plans

in a

collaborative effort

with other

health providers

Nurses

View the whole person not just an isolated presenting health problem

Build on their understanding of an injury or illness to promote the restoration and maintenance of health in their clients

Utilize their education and professional experience to develop a nursing care plan for their clients in a medical setting

The Nursing Care Plan… Life Care Planning…

is the essence of the Nurse Life Care Plan

is a specialized area of nursing practice that deals with individuals who have sustained a catastrophic injury or illness

The Power of Nursing

The Nursing Process

Assessment

Diagnosis

Planning

Implementation

Evaluation

o The foundation of the Nurse Life Care Plan

o Used to formulate a plan of care to identify the client’s individual needs

The Nursing Assessment

Click icon to add pictureThe Nursing Assessment is based on collecting subjective and objective data from:

oObservations

oInterviews

oExaminations

oWritten Records

The data collected may include physical, psychological, cognitive, functional, developmental, sociocultural, spiritual, economic, and/or lifestyle information about the client

The Nurse Life Care Planner…

Analyzes data collected to identify health care issues and formulates nursing diagnoses

Collaborates with other health care professionals to project estimated care and services

Identifies individual client outcomes

Develops an individualized comprehensive plan of action

Calculates associated reasonable costs of care, goods and services necessary to achieve desired health outcomes

ROUTINE MEDICAL CAREMEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES MEDICATIONSMOBILITY EQUIPMENTORTHOTICS/PROSTHETICSTRANSPORTATIONCASE MANAGEMENTDIAGNOSTIC TESTINGHOME CARE MODIFICATIONSVOCATIONAL ANALYSISSKILLED NURSING SERVICES

The Nurse Life Care Plan May Include:

The Nurse Life Care

Plan

Follows the client

throughout

his or her lifetime

to ensure

funds

will be

available

for

proper treatment

and care

Nurse Life Care Planners

Work in expanded roles outside traditional nursing

Own their own businesses

Entrepreneurs

CONTACT THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE LIFE CARE PLANNERS

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Interested In Becoming A Certified Nurse Life Care Planner?