The CNLCP certifies registered nurses in life care planning grounded in the nursing process: assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Nurse life care planners bring hands-on clinical knowledge of medications, supplies, skilled care, and daily care routines to the documentation of future needs, frequencies, and costs.
CNLCP-authored plans are routinely accepted where the nurse planner documents methodology and the clinical foundation for each recommendation. The nursing license and the certification together establish qualification to describe care needs; physician recommendations remain the source for medical items.
Both certify life care planning competence. The CNLCP is open only to registered nurses and frames the plan around the nursing process; the CLCP is open to several clinical and rehabilitation disciplines. Many nurse planners hold both.
Practical knowledge of skilled nursing tasks, supply quantities, medication administration, and the daily routines of bowel, bladder, skin, and respiratory care, which makes the attendant care and supply sections of a plan concrete and defensible.
Yes, to the projected cost of the care documented in the plan, using stated cost sources. Opinions on the medical necessity of a treatment come from the treating or examining physician.
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