Nursing Care Model Paper
Nursing Care Model Nurses are the first line of defense in patient’s care and are essential in the healthcare system. They are not only delivering care to the patients, but they also teaching, advocating for their patients, and providing comfort and support for the patients and their families. The way the nurses deliver the care to the patients is guided by the nursing care model that is used in the facility. According to Finkelman (2016), “nursing practice models have been used to implement recourse-intensive strategies with the goal of decreasing expenses and using staff more effectively” (pg. 111). There are several nursing care models that are adapted and developed by the Health Care Organizations (HCOs) over time, such as total patient
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Due to the high volume of patients, especially on the long term floors, nurse case managers are not completely involved with the patient’s care, which gives the nurses on the floors a greater responsibility for the patients.
The therapy department is mainly focused on the rehabilitation floor to assist the short-term patients in improving their functional status to discharge in their previous living placements. They give directions to the nurses and CNAs on the special treatments and care levels the patients need during their stay in the facility.
Due to assigned tasks and divided responsibilities for each of the nursing staff, the nursing care model that is practiced in my workplace is similar to the functional nursing care model. The issue with the functional nursing care model is that everybody focuses on their own tasks and at times the priority for the patients are overlooked.
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Changing to a team nursing care approach will improve the quality of care for the patients and residents. The nursing team provides total continuous care to a group of patients which avoid the possibility of the important information or priority of care to be missed. This method benefits both nursing team and the patients and would be a better fit for my workplace. Working together as a team, nurses and other team members not only collaborate and coordinate the care toward the same goal toward a patient-centered care but also share responsibility and accountability together. This approach alleviates nurses from assuming complete responsibility for the patient care, which makes her less pressured and less stressed out. Instead of completing tasks that are assigned to each discipline in my workplace, we should change the culture of delivering care as a team approach. Also, allowing additional staff, who can assist the nurses such as the ward clerk and the appointment scheduler that can cover the non-nursing tasks and allow nurses to spend more time with the
Due to the high volume of patients, especially on the long term floors, nurse case managers are not completely involved with the patient’s care, which gives the nurses on the floors a greater responsibility for the patients.
The therapy department is mainly focused on the rehabilitation floor to assist the short-term patients in improving their functional status to discharge in their previous living placements. They give directions to the nurses and CNAs on the special treatments and care levels the patients need during their stay in the facility.
Due to assigned tasks and divided responsibilities for each of the nursing staff, the nursing care model that is practiced in my workplace is similar to the functional nursing care model. The issue with the functional nursing care model is that everybody focuses on their own tasks and at times the priority for the patients are overlooked.
Functional Nursing Care …show more content…
Changing to a team nursing care approach will improve the quality of care for the patients and residents. The nursing team provides total continuous care to a group of patients which avoid the possibility of the important information or priority of care to be missed. This method benefits both nursing team and the patients and would be a better fit for my workplace. Working together as a team, nurses and other team members not only collaborate and coordinate the care toward the same goal toward a patient-centered care but also share responsibility and accountability together. This approach alleviates nurses from assuming complete responsibility for the patient care, which makes her less pressured and less stressed out. Instead of completing tasks that are assigned to each discipline in my workplace, we should change the culture of delivering care as a team approach. Also, allowing additional staff, who can assist the nurses such as the ward clerk and the appointment scheduler that can cover the non-nursing tasks and allow nurses to spend more time with the