NR 447 Week 5 Assignment – Nursing Care Models Worksheet Supporting Literature

NR 447 Week 5 Assignment – Nursing Care Models Worksheet

Supporting Literature

The first supporting article I reviewed is titled Interprofessional Collaboration and Education. It is an inclusive article that details the importance of multiple healthcare entities working together to deliver the patient to optimal health. It insists on different healthcare entities working side-by-side, educating each other, gaining respect for each other, and learning how to complement each other’s continuum of care. It puts a lot of emphasis on the profession of nursing and its ability to make extensive changes in the healthcare field in light of a medical profession shortage. Essentially it implies that nursing must be held accountable for using its influence appropriately, and it must help lead the way to interdisciplinary collaborations, therefore holding healthcare shortages at bay (Sullivan, Koivsky, Mason, Hill, and Dukes, 2015).

The second supporting article I reviewed is titled, Interprofessional Collaboration: three best practice models of interprofessional education. The article speaks specifically to the core competencies that need to be adhered to to allow for effective and efficient interprofessional collaboration. This effective and efficient interprofessional collaboration, if practiced by all, will lead to better patient care, overall better health for the greater masses, and a proportional decrease in healthcare costs (Bridges, Davidson, Odegard, Maki, and Tomkowiak, 2011). Additionally, it goes on to reiterate that patients in this day and age are experiencing health issues that are more complex (Bridges et al., 2011). Therefore, they should be more than taken care of; they should have the genuine feeling of being cared for as a whole, and it takes a team to accomplish this task (Bridges et al., 2011).

Implementation of the current practice model and another recommendation

In 2002 the network that I work within applied for and obtained its first Magnet designation. In order to be a Magnet organization, the organization’s care model must be the direct representation of the nursing profession and the patients they support and care for. The interprofessional nursing practice model within my network was built on the framework of patient care will be a team approach, which will assure thorough, continuous care with measurable outcomes. It relies on multi-disciplinary communication and collaboration as well as shared governance to maintain its framework (Finkelman, 2016). Ad hoc committee meetings were scheduled with varying levels of network staff and executed with the sole purpose of the implementation of the interprofessional nursing model. All potential issues were explored and rectified prior to the roll-out date. At the start of the new fiscal year in 2001, it was rolled out to all members of the network with the common goal of patient-centered care.

Recommendation of a Different Practice Model

 Relationship-based care would be my recommendation for a different nursing care model that could be integrated into my network to produce positive, measurable satisfaction in both the physical and emotional aspects of delivery of care. Relationship-based care is built on the concepts of safety and quality strategies, employee satisfaction, patient and family involvement, and fiscally sound decisions (Winsett & Hauck, 2011). I believe the relationship-based care model would deliver measurable satisfaction on many levels to nurses, patients, families, and my healthcare organization that supports us.