NR447 Week 5: Nursing Care Models Paper
NR447 Week 5: Nursing Care Models Paper
Nursing Care Models Paper Guidelines
Updated 7/23/2017
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to identify nursing care
models utilized in today’s 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 and determine 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
CO1: 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
(PO2)
CO2: Implement patient safety and quality improvement
initiatives within the context of the interprofessional team through
communication and relationship building (PO3)
CO3: Participate in the development and implementation of
imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change (PO7)
CO6: Develop a personal awareness of complex organizational
systems and integrate values and beliefs with organizational mission (PO7)
CO7: 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 (PO2, and 3)
CO8: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure,
process, and outcome measures to identify clinical questions as the beginning
process of changing current practice (PO8)
Due Dates
Submit by Sunday, 11:59 pm MT, end of Week 5
Rubric
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Points
This assignment is worth 200 points
Directions
Read your text, Finkelman (2016), pp- 111-116
Observe staff in delivery of nursing care provided Practice
settings may vary depending on availability
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
Write a 5-7 page paper that includes the following:
Review and summarize two scholarly resources (not including
your text) related to the nursing care model you observed in the practice
setting
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
Discuss your observations about how the current nursing care
model is being implemented Be specific
Recommend a different nursing care model that could be
implemented to improve quality of nursing care, safety and staff satisfaction
Be specific
Provide a summary/conclusion about this
experience/assignment and what you learned about nursing care models
Write your paper using APA format using Microsoft Office
2010 or later
Submit your paper no later than 11:59 pm MT on Sunday by
the end of Week 5