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Clear Care Model: A Concept Analysis

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Nursing is built on a professional frame work, based on knowledge, and it guide practice through a model of care. The model of nursing care is a blend of both professional behavior and clinical leadership. It creates a mutual goal and allows prioritization of care. The primary goal of the nursing care model is to establish a relationship between nurse and the patient. When we have a clear care model, we can use such model to promote autonomous decision making, provide high quality and consistent care, establish professional identity, improve interpersonal communication and job satisfaction. Most important, Clear care model improves quality of care there by enhances the patient and family satisfaction. (Practice models: A concept analysis). …show more content…

This model of care uses the help of case managers to deliver the highly complex healthcare service effectively to the patients, who have catastrophic health problems, and high cost health conditions (Finkelman, 2016). In our hospital case managers are RNs and they work with team to achieve desired patient outcome. There is a study in Lippincott nursing center which states that the use of case management model reduced the average length of stay in hospital by 1.57 days compared to the traditional models. It also explained that the use of communication, collaboration and coordination of care through a RN case manager nursing model of care, will reduce the cost of care and at the same time it will maintain the expected high-quality care with limited human resources (Case Management Delivery Models: The Impact of Indirect Care Givers on Organizational Outcomes). Another study in US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, states that the use of case management model in outpatient dialysis unit, decreased the patient hospitalization rate, and mortality rate. It also helped to decrease the use of catheter as the primary access (which will decrease the rate of infection), and patients achieving efficient dialysis treatment increased by 15.33% (A case management model to improve hemodialysis outpatient …show more content…

This care model is used in most of the outpatient dialysis centers. The most experienced RN can be the in-charge of the unit and can control the whole care delivery and the other RN can take care of physician’s orders, checking critical labs, medication administrations, and helping in emergencies or busy turnover time. LPNs can take care of catheter care and medication. Dialysis technicians are certified for hemodialysis care, setup the machines, water treatment and can do the fistula and graft-based cannulation and care. In this model of nursing care, each of the team members, RN, LPNs and dialysis technicians, provide care for a group of patients during the treatment time according to their skill level and role identity and the charge nurse coordinate the care. Also, the charge nurse will have the high level of autonomy and holds the centralized decision-making authority (Finkelman). Since this model integrates various staffs and uses a mix of skills to provide care based on their scope of practice, the staff distribute the responsibilities and it alleviates staff burnout, which usually happens in primary nursing care model. Another advantage of this model is that, the team leader or nurse manager oversee the collaborative work, which will allow, maximizing the use of different skills with limited number of RNs (Evidence to Inform Staff Mix

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