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AACN NU 406: The Synergy Model for
Patient Care Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Solved
AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care - ✔✔What is this: that the needs or
characteristics of patients and families influence and drive the
characteristics or competencies of nurses?
synergy - ✔✔What is this: results when the needs and characteristics of a
patient, clinical unit or system are matched with a nurse's competencies?
patient and family - ✔✔The dimensions of a nurse's practice are driven by
the needs of who?
- patients are biological, psychological, social, and spiritual entities who
present at a particular developmental stage. The whole patient (body, mind
and spirit) must be considered
- the patient, family and community all contribute to providing a context for
the nurse-patient relationship
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- patients can be described by a number of characteristics. All
characteristics are connected and contribute to each other. Characteristics
cannot be looked at in isolation
- similarly, nurses can be described on a number of dimensions. The
interrelated dimensions paint a profile of the nurse
- a goal of nursing is to restore a patient to an optimal level of wellness as
defined by the patient. Death can be an acceptable outcome, in which the
goal of nursing care is to move a patient toward a peaceful death -
✔✔What are some of the assumptions regarding nurses, patients and
families that are guided by the Synergy Model?
resiliency - ✔✔What Synergy Model is this: the capacity to return to a
restorative level of functioning using compensatory/coping mechanisms;
the ability to bounce back quickly after an insult?
Level 1 - minimally resilient - ✔✔What level of resiliency is this: unable to
mount a response; failure of compensatory/coping mechanisms; minimal
reserves; brittle?
AACN NU 406: The Synergy Model for
Patient Care Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Solved
AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care - ✔✔What is this: that the needs or
characteristics of patients and families influence and drive the
characteristics or competencies of nurses?
synergy - ✔✔What is this: results when the needs and characteristics of a
patient, clinical unit or system are matched with a nurse's competencies?
patient and family - ✔✔The dimensions of a nurse's practice are driven by
the needs of who?
- patients are biological, psychological, social, and spiritual entities who
present at a particular developmental stage. The whole patient (body, mind
and spirit) must be considered
- the patient, family and community all contribute to providing a context for
the nurse-patient relationship
, ©NINJANERD 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
- patients can be described by a number of characteristics. All
characteristics are connected and contribute to each other. Characteristics
cannot be looked at in isolation
- similarly, nurses can be described on a number of dimensions. The
interrelated dimensions paint a profile of the nurse
- a goal of nursing is to restore a patient to an optimal level of wellness as
defined by the patient. Death can be an acceptable outcome, in which the
goal of nursing care is to move a patient toward a peaceful death -
✔✔What are some of the assumptions regarding nurses, patients and
families that are guided by the Synergy Model?
resiliency - ✔✔What Synergy Model is this: the capacity to return to a
restorative level of functioning using compensatory/coping mechanisms;
the ability to bounce back quickly after an insult?
Level 1 - minimally resilient - ✔✔What level of resiliency is this: unable to
mount a response; failure of compensatory/coping mechanisms; minimal
reserves; brittle?
