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.

In the spaces below, enter nursing diagnoses by choosing from the drop down list.

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.

Nursing diagnoses come from the NANDA book.

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.

You can also come back and add to or correct later.

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.

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.