Top Nursing Models to Consider
Review and summarize two scholarly resources (not including your text) related to the nursing care model you observed in the practice setting.
The first article reviewed for this assignment pertaining to the primary nursing care model is entitled “Implementation of a primary nursing model to optimize patient care and safety in an outpatient chemotherapy unit”. The authors discuss the incorporation of a primary nursing care model for use with cancer patients receiving chemotherapy treatment. It involves some of the fundamental aspects of this particular care model. One of the more eminent of these is the communication involved between registered nurses and other healthcare professionals to deploy such a model. The article discussed registered nurses working in conjunction with other personnel to monitor the treatment of patients experiencing radiation. Nurses worked with these professionals on an individual patient basis, gradually fostering “disease specific expertise” (Olstrom and Albenese, 2006 p. 447) as a result.
The second article reviewed for the primary nursing care model is entitled “A patient resource program: strengthening primary nursing”. It details the efforts of a patient resource program to find ways to counteract three detriments to primary nursing: “fragmentation of care, duplication, and blurred accountability” (Hambleton, 1998, p. 33). The article illustrates both the autonomy and degree of partnership involved in this model, as nurses must make vital points of identification about responses of patient treatment and utilize them in conjunction with other professionals.
Review and summarize two scholarly resources (not including your text) related to a nursing care model that is different from...
The article illustrates other care models and the typical characteristics of the team care model. Then, it describes the transformation of the latter model for the aforementioned environment. The capital difference of the approach of the authors is that there is not a single team leader, but rather various “multidisciplinary team leaders” (Nagi et al, 2012, p. 56).
“Team nursing: experiences of nurse managers in acute care settings” by Ferguson and Cioffi leverages a qualitative descriptive study to gain insight into the team nursing care model. Team leaders from acute care settings involving surgery disseminated data about their experiences incorporating this care model into their work. The article revealed advantages and disadvantages with this approach to care. Most prominent among the former was that less experienced staff could work with more experienced staff (Ferguson and Cioffi, 2011, p. 6), eliciting gestalt boons which benefited the entire team. Still, those in team leader positions had a significant amount of responsibility upon which the success of such endeavors largely hinged.
Discuss your observations about how the current nursing care model is being implemented. Be specific.
The nursing care model is implemented via the direct interaction of nurses with patients where the author of this document works. Furthermore, the basis of those interactions is the relationship which the nurses foster with the patient. In that respect there is a degree of autonomy involved—which…
