title: Concept mapping: reducing clinical care plan paperwork and increasing learning.
abstract: The author describes how concept maps were used in place of nursing care plans to reduce care planning paperwork in fundamentals and medical-surgical clinical courses in acute care facilities. In addition to less paperwork, clinical concept mapping enhances students' critical thinking skills and clinical reasoning because students and faculty can clearly and succinctly visualize priorities and identify relationships in clinical patient data.
authors.affiliation: Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA. paschuste@cc.ysu.edu
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Schuster
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004282:Documentation; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008128:Logic; D017145:Models, Educational; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013850:Thinking