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Practice Models
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describes the view of professional nursing for a group or a healthcare organization (HCO)
- framework used to guide practice
- can be a verbal description, visual, or both
- driving force of nursing care
- a schematic description of a theory, phenomenon, or system that depicts how nurses practice, collaborate, communicate, and develop professionally to provide the highest-quality care for those served by the organization
- mission, vision, and values; how the organization cares for its patients; how various professions relate to one another; and how the organization develops and recognizes employees
- should support expected nursing profession standards, differentiated practice, shared governance, collaboration, leadership, EBP, teams, and ongoing staff education
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Magnet Recognition Program
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a recognition program developed to support excellence in nursing services
- program is administered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on the Magnet Recognition Programs
- HCOs and their nursing services must meet certain criteria, Forces of Magnetism, to be recognized as a magnet organization
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Differentiated Nursing Practice
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a philosophy that focuses on the structuring of roles and functions of nursing according to education, experience, and competence
- indicates that graduates from each program enter practice having completed a curriculum associated with a level of education and related competencies
- there is a positive impact on patient care when more RNs have BSN degrees
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Differentiated Nursing Practice
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a philosophy that focuses on the structuring of roles and functions of nursing according to education, experience, and competence
- indicates that graduates from each program enter practice having completed a curriculum associated with a level of education and related competencies
- there is a positive impact on patient care when more RNs have BSN degrees
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Examples of Professional Practice Models
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- Functional Nursing Structure
- Team Nursing Structure
- Total Care Nursing Structure
- Primary Nursing Structure
- Case Management Model
- Forces of Magnetism
- Synergy Model
- Innovative new professional practice models
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Model
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offers nurses a consistent way of framing the care they deliver to patients and their families
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ANA of Critical-Care Nurse’s Synergy Model
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- current nursing model
- core premise is closely r/t the five healthcare core competencies, particularly patient-centered care, by describing the needs of patients and families as the drivers of the characteristics and competencies of the nurse
- focuses on patients characteristics; resiliency, vulnerability, stability, complexity, resource availability, participation in care, participation in decision, and predictability
- focuses on nurse competencies; clinical judgment, advocacy, caring practices, collaboration, systems thinking, response to diversity, clinical inquiry, facilitation of learning, and clinical inquiry (innovator/evaluator)
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Innovative New Professional Practice Models
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- include an elevated RN role
- greater focus on the patient; efforts to improve patient transitions and handoffs to decrease errors and make the patient more comfortable
- leveraging of technology to enable care model design; electronic medical records, robots, bar coding, cell phone communication
- greater emphasis on results or outcomes
