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NU 406: The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care
Exam Questions and Answers
AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care - Ans:✔✔-What is this: that the needs or characteristics of
patients and families influence and drive the characteristics or competencies of nurses?
synergy - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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
- 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
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- 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 - Ans:✔✔-What are some of the assumptions regarding nurses, patients and families that are
guided by the Synergy Model?
resiliency - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-What level of resiliency is this: unable to mount a response; failure
of compensatory/coping mechanisms; minimal reserves; brittle?
level 3 - moderately resilient - Ans:✔✔-What level of resiliency is this: able to mount a moderate
response; able to initiate some degree of compensation; moderate reserves?
level 5 - highly resilient - Ans:✔✔-What level of resiliency is this: able to mount and maintain a response;
intact compensatory/coping mechanisms; strong reserves; endurance?
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
NU 406: The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care
Exam Questions and Answers
AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care - Ans:✔✔-What is this: that the needs or characteristics of
patients and families influence and drive the characteristics or competencies of nurses?
synergy - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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
- 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
Page 1/12
, ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
- 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 - Ans:✔✔-What are some of the assumptions regarding nurses, patients and families that are
guided by the Synergy Model?
resiliency - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-What level of resiliency is this: unable to mount a response; failure
of compensatory/coping mechanisms; minimal reserves; brittle?
level 3 - moderately resilient - Ans:✔✔-What level of resiliency is this: able to mount a moderate
response; able to initiate some degree of compensation; moderate reserves?
level 5 - highly resilient - Ans:✔✔-What level of resiliency is this: able to mount and maintain a response;
intact compensatory/coping mechanisms; strong reserves; endurance?
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