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Synergy Model of Care - correct answer ✅✅Needs of the patient/family
drive nursing care -- matching skill set of the nurse to the needs of the
patient
"When nurse competencies stem from patient needs and the characteristics
of the nurse and patient synergize, optimal patient outcomes can result."
-The synergy model is also used to determine outcomes. Outcomes are
evaluated based on those derived from the patient, the nurse, and the
healthcare system
-patient derived outcomes may include functional changes, trust,
satisfaction, comfort, quality of life.
-nurse derived outcomes may include physiological changes, absence of
complications, an extent to which the treatment objectives are attained.
-healthcare system derived outcomes include recidivism which is a negative
outcome, cost savings or overrun, and resource utilization under or over
utilization or optimal utilization.
The synergy model continued - correct answer ✅✅AACN focused on
healthy work environment
-Patient characteristics are of concern to nurses
-A nurse's competencies are important to patients
-Patient's characteristics drive nurse's competencies
-When patient's characteristics and nurses' competencies match and
synergize, outcomes for the patients are optimal
- used in a variety of clinical settings as a basis for nursing clinical
advancement, determining staff ratios, preceptor ship, safe critical care of
patient transport, building a nursing productivity measure, and guiding
practice of rapid response teams and the foundation for advanced practice
nursing.
, Introduction to critical care exam one
Question and Answers A+ Review
Premises of the synergy model - correct answer ✅✅1. Patient's
characteristics are of concern to the nurse
2. Nurses competencies are important to the patients
3. patients characteristics drive nurses competencies
4. When patience characteristics and the nurses competencies match and
synergy outcomes for the patient or optimal
-A framework that can be used as a basis for work to be done by facilities
seeking magnet designation
-Eight patient characteristics and eight nurse competencies that constitute
practice form the basis of the patient model
Eight patient characteristics and eight nursing competencies - correct
answer ✅✅- The patient characteristics range in intensity and are
expressed as level one, three, or five. The level can change from one minute
to the next. Like the patient characteristics the nurse competencies exist on
a continuum
- Nurse competencies are on a continuum and are expressed as level one,
three, or five. Level can vary based on level of expertise in a given clinical
situation.
magnet designation - correct answer ✅✅- The Magnet Recognition
Program designates organizations worldwide where nursing leaders
successfully align their strategic nursing goals to improve the organization's
patient outcomes.
-To nurses, Magnet Recognition means education and development through
every career stage, leading to greater bedside autonomy. To patients, it
means the very best care delivered by nurses who are supported to be the
very best that they can be
-matters to the patients
-meet the standards, costs 60K to maintain