Assignment: Care Models Nursing

Assignment: Care Models Nursing

Week 5: Nursing Care Models Paper 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)

Historically, four traditional care models have dominated the organization of inpatientnursing care. Functional and team nursing are task-oriented and use a mix ofnursing personnel; total patient care and primary nursing are patient-oriented and rely on registered nurses (RNs) to deliver care.Traditional models of patient care delivery include total patient care and functional, team, and primary nursing. These models differ in clinical decision making, work allocation, communication, and management, with differing social and economic forces driving the choice of model.