Implementing a nursing care plan for exotic pets

摘要

IN recent years, nursing care plans have become commonplace in veterinary nursing.In the early days, human nursing models, such as the Roper, Logan and Tierney care plan (1980), or Orem's self-care deficit (2001) were used - but these were soon superseded by the Orpet and Jeffrey ability model (Orpet, 2008), which is now widely used across the profession.The aim of a nursing care plan is to clearly define the management of a case that meets the requirements of a given patient. It needs to be adaptable and responsive to that individual.The ability model focuses on normal behaviours, including eating, drinking, breathing and mobilising. The authors observed most reports describing use of the ability model seem to focus on dogs and cats.