Care plans & action plans
A care plan is useful when you have several people involved in your care or you have ongoing health issues so everyone is on the 'same page' as to what matters to you (your goals, values and preferences) and what's planned together with your healthcare team for the next 12 months to improve your health or wellbeing.
Care plans
Te Kete Haerenga – Your Journey to Wellbeing Kete
Te Kete Haerenga – our online self-management toolkit – will give power back to you in your journey to wellbeing and hauora. Designed for and with people living with long-term health conditions (LTCs), the kete can be used to describe what's important to you and your whānau, what you wish to achieve in your life and how others can best support you in that journey.
Health Navigator, NZ
Te Kete Haerenga and fatigue
This kete will help you to understand your fatigue and make a plan to manage it better.
Health Navigator, NZ
Te Kete Haerenga and stress
Stress is a natural response to a demand or threat in our environment and we all experience it, but sometimes it can be overwhelming. Here you can find information, tips and an action plan template to help you manage your stress better.
Health Navigator, NZ
Te Kete Haerenga and medicines
Here you can find tips to help you remember to take your medicines safely, information about what you need to know about your medicines and a medicines list to fill in.
Health Navigator, NZ
Te Kete Haerenga and sleep
Health Navigator, NZ
Te Kete Haerenga and pain
Learning about your pain and the things you can do to manage it better can improve your quality of life. Here you can find information, tips and diaries you can use to improve your pain self-management.
Health Navigator, NZ
Action plans and acute plans
This section includes a range of resources which are sometimes called action plans, acute plans or self-management plans which focus on early warning signs and what actions a person should take.
Acute (emergency) plan
Early warning signs plan also known as acute plan or emergency plan.
Health Navigator, NZ
Pictorial asthma medication plan
A web-based tool that health professionals can use to produce personalised pictorial asthma resources in English and three Pacific languages.
Waitemata DHB, NZ
Anaphylaxis
Range of action plans for anipen or epipen.
Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology & Allergy
AIR: Adults asthma action plan
This asthma action plan is completed with your
healthcare practitioner or nurse to help control your
asthma. Your plan explains how to control your asthma
long term, it helps to identify what to do when you are
well, unwell or need help in an emergency.
Asthma Foundation, NZ
Eczema action plan
Eczema action plan (interactive - can write name, meds etc).
Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology & Allergy
Additional tools and resources
This section includes examples of some of the tools and resources you may find useful as patient tasks when creating care plans with patients and clients.
Headache diary
Monitor your headaches for a week or two then show to your doctor. Helps see any patterns or triggers.
Health Navigator, NZ
Advance care planning
Range of resources about advance care planning.
Health Quality & Safety Commission, NZ
Take Charge sleep tips tracker
Write down what your sleep is like. Look for patterns, what helps, what makes any sleep problems worse. Show to your doctor.
Health Navigator, NZ
