Family and child Health standardised care plans for PHN

The Family and Child Health Standardised Care Plans for Public Health Nursing Services were formally launched on Monday 6th December 2021.

This marks the completion of a collaborative project between the Institute of Community Health Nursing (ICHN), The Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (ONMSD) and the National Healthy Childhood Programme (NHCP), building on the work developed in 2016 by the Institute of Community Health Nursing Child and Family Health Interest Group. The 34 care plans are an optional resource that can be availed of by PHNs as required to enhance the quality of care and support evidence-based practice. Guidance on the use of the care plans is supported by a national procedure.

Please note these care plans are password protected.  You will have received the password from your Director of Public Health Nursing.

• Approved procedure for the use of standarised care plans in PHN service
• Care plans 1 - 34 combined into one document
• CCPHN01 - Jaundice at the first postnatal visit
• CCPHN02 - Infant with cleft lip and / or cleft palate having difficulty with feeding
• CPPHN03 - Nappy rash
• CPPHN04 - Infant or child has dry skin patches
• CPPHN05 - Infant has symptoms of infant colic
• CPPHN06 - Mum has difficulty latching baby to breast due to confirmed tongue-tie (Ankyloglossia)
• CPPHN07 - Infant is possetting (spitting up after feed)
• CPPHN08 - Head lag at 3 - 4 months
• CPPHN09 - Infant has sticky eye
• CPPHN10 - Positional plagiocephaly
• CPPHN11 - Umbilicus is moist or sticky
• CPPHN12 - Weight dropped through two or more centiles on the UK-WHO (Ireland) Growth Chart (0-4)
• CPPHN13 - Infant not sitting unsupported at 9-11 months
• CPPHN14 - Infant has delayed fine motor skills at 9-11 months
• CPPHN15 - Parent fearful that the infant or child will choke on lumpy food
• CPPHN16 - Unsafe sleeping environment for infant
• CPPHN17 - Constipation in infant
• CPPHN18 - Parent expresses concerns about child's altered bowel habit
• CPPHN19 - Parent expresses concerns about child's temper tantrums
• CPPHN20 - Parent expresses concerns about child's sleep difficulties (for example, getting to sleep or staying asleep)
• CPPHN21 - Delayed toilet training in the preschool child
• CPPHN22 - Unsafe home environment for infant or child
• CPPHN23 - Breast engorgement in breastfeeding mother
• CPPHN24 - Mother has painful perineum following a normal or assisted delivery
• CPPHN25 - Mother has Caesarean section would
• CPPHN26 - Mother has cracked nipples
• CPPHN27 - Mother has pain when infant is latching to the breast (excluding cracked nipple or mastitis)
• CPPHN28 - Mother has signs and symptoms of mastitis
• CPPHN29 - Maternal constipation in the first 6 weeks postnatal period
• CPPHN30 - Mother has positive answers to the mental health screening questionnaire
• CPPHN31 - Parent is experiencing difficulty with parenting skills in relation to infant-child care needs
• CPPHN32 - Parent is experiencing difficulty in creating a nurturing environment for their infant or child
• CPPHN33 - Parent is socially isolated
• CCPHN34 - Mother with postnatal depression (PND) symptoms following Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) screening