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    Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

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    A 15 page research paper that takes the form of a hypothetical research study proposal. The writer proposes a study that compares critical mapping to traditional care plans in regards to clinical patient care within the context of an associate nursing degree program. The writer offers an extensive literature review and discusses all aspects of the proposed study, with advice to the student researcher. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

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    examining the experience of Schuster (2002) and her insightful use of concept mapping as a teaching tool to aid nursing students in honing their clinical skills. Schuster has been a  nursing educator for 15 years. She explains the difficulties that she encountered in trying to help her students develop the critical thinking skills necessary to effective clinical practice, as  well as the complicated processes involved in providing clinical care. For years, Schuster relied on the methodology associated with formulating traditional care  plans, requiring her students to write multiple care plans throughout a semester. She says that she required students "to develop and submit weekly care plans using a five-column format"  commonly found in nursing programs (Schuster, 2002). The drawback in writing these plans is that, after doing so, the students were still unable to answer Dr. Schusters basic questions about  specific patients based on data (Schuster, 2002). For instance, Schuster relates that she once asked her students to evaluate a patient who  had a hip replacement and report on that patients priority problem. One student indicated that the patients priority problem was a fever. Therefore, Schuster asked: ...what caused  the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the patient dehydrated and simply in need of fluids?  The student could not tell" (Schuster, 2002). After relating similar scenarios, Schuster writes that, out of frustration, she asked her students  to write the main reason the patient needed health care in the center of a piece of paper and then write all of the patients problem around the reason. She 

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