Nursing Care Models
Paper:
Guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is toidentify
nursing care models utilized in todays various health care settings and
enhance your knowledge of how models impact the management of care and may
influence delegation. You will assess the effectiveness of models anddetermine
how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to identify opportunities for
improvement to ensure quality, safety and staff satisfaction.
Course Outcomes
Completion of this assignment enables the
student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO#1: Apply
leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high
quality nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and
accountability for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO #2)
CO#2: Implement
patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the
interprofessional team through communication and relationship building. (PO #3)
CO#3:
Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative
strategies to enablesystems to change. (PO #7)
CO#6: Develop a
personal awareness of complex organizational systems and integrate values and
beliefs withorganizational mission. (PO #7)
CO#7: Apply
leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for
the microsystems and/or system-wide practice improvements that will improve the
quality of healthcare delivery. (PO #2, and #3)
CO#8: Apply
concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures
to identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current
practice. (PO#8)Due Dates
This assignmentis to be submitted to the
Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 4.
Points
This assignment is worth 200 points.
Directions
1. Read your text, Finkelman (2012), pp- 118- 127.
2. Observe staff in delivery of nursing care provided. Practice
settings may vary depending on availability.3. Identify the model of nursing care that you observed. Be specific
about what you observed, who was doing what, when, how and what led you to
identify the particular model.
4. Write a 5-7 page paper that includes the following:
5. Review and summarize two scholarly resources (not including your
text) related tothe nursing care modelyou observed in the practice setting.
6. Review and summarize two scholarly resources (not including your
text) related to a nursing care model that is different from the one you observed in the practice setting.
7. Discuss your observations about how the current nursing care model
is being implemented. Be specific.
8. Recommend a differentnursing
care model that could be implemented to improve quality of nursing care, safety
and staff satisfaction. Be specific.
9. Provide a summary/conclusion about this experience/assignment and
what you learned about nursing care models.
10. Write your paper using APA format. Submit to the Dropbox.