2,000+ free nursing care plans, written by a nurse
Every disorder has 3 to 4 complete care plans with the nursing diagnosis, goals, interventions and rationales. Plus drug guides, study notes and practice exams.
Nursing care plans
3 to 4 for every disorder, organized by body system.
Browse by body system → Up to datePractice exams
Kept current, with answer keys: NCLEX-style, dosage calculation and more.
Take a free practice exam → HESI A2Entrance exam review
Math, reading, anatomy and physiology before you are even admitted.
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Every plan lists the nursing diagnosis, related factors, defining characteristics, measurable goals, and interventions with rationales.
The care plans are free. When you’re ready to practice, I built Prep for that.
Reading a care plan is not the same as answering a question about it. Prep gives you the practice, in the same voice as my videos, with a rationale for every answer option.
- 4,600+ practice questions, every answer explained
- NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN, nursing school, TEAS and HESI A2
- Timed exam simulators and a dosage practice lab
A nurse receives report on four clients. Which client should the nurse assess first?
Why B. This is an acute change with no change in the oxygen delivered. Breathing outranks the rest. Prep explains why each of the others is not the answer.
Free practice exams
Up to date, timed, with a worked answer key at the end.
Basic dosage and conversions
Tablet and liquid dosing, metric conversions, household units, and pound-to-kilogram weight math.
Heparin, insulin, and units
Units per mL, pump rates in mL per hour, weight-based heparin boluses, and combining insulin doses.
Pediatric and weight-based dosing
Pound-to-kilogram conversion, mg/kg/day versus mg/kg/dose, safe-dose range checks, and suspension volumes.
Study with me on YouTube, free
NCLEX practice questions talked through out loud, one rationale at a time.
Recently updated
Reviewed against current practice and re-dated when the content actually changes.
Imbalanced Nutrition: Less Than Body Requirements
The NANDA-I diagnosis for intake that does not meet metabolic demand, with related factors, defining characteristics and interventions.
Fever (Pyrexia) Nursing Diagnosis and Care Plan
Why fever is a regulated hypothalamic response and hyperthermia is not, and why that changes the nursing action.
Hypertension Nursing Diagnosis and Care Plan
Stage 1, stage 2, and hypertensive crisis, with the findings that move a client from teaching to escalation.
Printed study guides
The same material, laid out to print and carry. One-page drug class sheets, lab values, and body-system reviews you can write on in clinical.
One nurse writes everything here
I’m Anna Curran, RN, BSN, PHN. I spent 30 years in critical care and the ER and taught ADN and BSN students along the way. I built NurseStudy.Net because the care plans students were handed were vague, unsourced, and written by people who had never hung a drip. Every page on this site is written and reviewed by me, and re-dated when I actually change it.
The NCLEX Survival Kit
Eight pages: priority-setting rules, the lab values you’re expected to recall cold, and med-surg quick notes. Free, and it stays free.