The Nursing Care Model

The purpose of this study is to determine whether nurse staffing has an effect on teamwork. In order to make this determination, a cross-sectional study is used here. The methodology is quantitative, and uses a descriptive design. A sample of nursing staff that came from four different hospitals and 52 individual patient care units was utilized for this study, in order to obtain enough relevant data for the conclusions drawn by the researchers. The collection of data was done through The Nursing Teamwork Survey, so as to have a valid instrument for data collection procedures and practices. Perceived teamwork data, as well as actual data on nurse staffing, was collected for all of the hospitals and all of the units of patient care that participated in the study.

Teamwork and collaboration in nursing can be defined as the development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes that reflect the particular needs of the patient, family, or community, requiring an understanding of what others have to offer. (Giddens & Liesveld, 2013). This means that nurses are constantly working as a team to provide the best care for their patients. Working as part of a team may include listening to the client, getting help from another nurse to verify dosage calculations or working alongside the doctor to carefully facilitate their orders. I don’t believe any one nurse would be effective if they were working by themselves. The profession alone is demanding and one nurse working by themselves to assist the needs of more than one patient at a time would be dangerous.

nurse staffing ensures quality nursing care for patients and can be a challenge for nurse

Nursing care is focused on the assessment, nursing diagnoses, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patients. This nursing process can also be implemented in aspects outside of nursing and on the nursing field as a collective group. The nursing role is evolving, following the process the outcomes have to be evaluated and put into perspective. Research is being completed the conclusions are all the same, the higher education of nursing care the better the patient outcomes.

effectiveness (Cioffi & Ferguson, 2009). Therefore, it is important to ensure that nurses who assume leader roles have the skills to manage and delegate tasks as required. There must be clearly defined roles and responsibilities for each team member that take into account the levels of expertise among the members. It can be troublesome when team members do not carry their share of the work. When this occurs, other team members take on an additional work burden to address the shortfalls in patient care. If the team leader is unable to provide clarity and direction for the team, the model will not be effective.

Nursing profession conveys dedication, obligation and responsibility to patient care in order to increase safety, high quality of care, and to enhance better patients’ outcomes. The multifaceted health issues in which the United States and all other nations encounter brings about the discussion and debate that relates to the future of nursing profession. The most resourceful, practical, inventive and versatile occupations among the health care workforce is nursing profession, but has not been involved in the partnership and leadership role to improve care delivery and health care system. The prospect to consolidate the health care system is by reforming the largest workforce in the health care system. By involving the nurses as a partner and also allowing nurses to assume the leadership role. The purpose of the paper is to focus on "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, by Transforming Practice, Transforming Education, and Transforming Leadership.

A continuous shortage of nursing has been the attention in the nation for many years. A significant contributor to the decline of quality care is the shortage of registered nurses. “Registered Nurses are the largest population of health care professionals” (AACN, 2014) and still there is shortage of nurses. Nurses play a pivotal role in patient care in hospitals, long term care facilities, community, hospice, schools, and at home. The care nurses provide is directly linked to the cost, availability and the quality of healthcare. Education, practice, recruitment and retention are the four main categories associated with shortage of nursing. “Under the Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act, Nursing workforce development programs has helped decrease the nursing shortage and evidently improve the quality of patient care (AACN, 2014).”

This article focused on a study of the implementation of the Watson theory of human caring and how it has a positive outcome when implementing the caring-based model. The purpose is to see if the caring-model would change the satisfaction rate a patient has when going to a hospital for assistance. Staff members from different departments had to assist a presentation where they learned about caring techniques such as Watson theory and how they should apply them at work. In the study there were 2 sample groups that were split randomly to prevent bias to analyze and take questionnaires of pre intervention and post intervention. Methods used for this study was the CBA tool that used the five-point scale to measure that focused on nurses and staff behavior and compare the results. The results showed that the staff members who attended the caring model presentation had a positive outcome as staff focused on patients’ needs. The final outcomes showed that implementing the caring-based model in different departments in health care setting benefits both staff and overall patients experience.

Since the 1990’s, the interest in nursing and the profession as a whole has decreased dramatically and is still expected to do so over the next 10-15 years according to some researchers. With this nursing shortage, many factors are affected. Organizations have to face challenges of low staffing, higher costs for resources, recruiting and reserving of registered nurses, among liability issues as well. Some of the main issues arising from this nurse shortage are the impact of quality and continuity of care, organizational costs, the effect it has on nursing staff, and etc. However, this not only affects an organization and community, but affects the nurses the same. Nurses are becoming overwhelmed and are questioning the quality of care

Dr. Avedis Donabedian developed a model for categorizing and measuring the quality of healthcare providing a framework that conceptualized quality in broad terms and classification to measure and assess different aspects of quality in nursing care (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). In the footsteps of Donabedian’s framework, Dr. Beatrice Kalisch developed a model conceptualizing missed nursing care otherwise known as “unfinished nursing care” or “care left undone”. Missed nursing care as defined in the Missed Nursing Care Model is any aspect of required patient care that is omitted, either in part or whole, or delayed (Kalisch, Landstrom, & Hinshaw, 2009). The structural aspects Kalisch’s model include labor resources, nursing staff, competency level of staff, education and experience, material resources, teamwork and communication. Kalisch model indicates that nurses with recent restricted resources in the nursing process determining clinical priorities is costly making decisions either to delay or omit certain care and is heavily influenced by team perception, nurse judgment, ("Missed Nursing Care AHRQ," 2015).

It takes a combination of theories to make healthcare organizations function at a quality standard. Providing the patients with the best care possible is always the goal for any healthcare organization. It takes, not only the nurses, but all the staff of the organization to achieve this goal. Non-nursing theories exist to help guide all staff and provide an optimal work environment to allow quality care to be given to the patient. In this paper, some non-nursing theories will be examined and the importance of each one will be ranked according to this nurse.

Nurses play the major role in the healthcare system because they are the largest group of professional healthcare providers that give direct care for patients. That is why nursing shortage give an profound impact on the healthcare system. According to Nursingworld.org, the vast increase of the population of people over 65 who requires increasing health services, and the healthcare reforms in 2010 that help millions people can afford health insurance and lower the uninsured population. To respond to these major forces, more nurses and healthcare professionals are needed. That is why the nursing shortage will increase greatly in the future. To look at the effects of nursing shortage to the quality of care; this literature review will develop

The moral imperative to address nurse staffing goes beyond the financial viability of health care institutions and must include the safety issues patients face when their nurse cannot effectively manage the care related to his or her patient care assignments” (Mensik & Nickitas, 2015, p. 186). Taking away the financial element, team nursing is the best choice for my work environment, as well as the patients we treat. Team nursing helps for all the nurses’ to see the overall picture of what needs to be done with the patients, allows for coverage on the floor when breaks are taken, there is more empowerment provided to the nurses, and more is learned by the novice nurses from the senior staff (Ferguson & Cioffi, 2011). I feel that we already

The environment is critical to health and the nurse’s role in caring for the sick is to provide a clean, quiet, peaceful environment to promote healing. Nightingale’s

Nursing care delivery model is a method that is used by nurses as implemented by their institution in providing care to their patients. The method of care can be varied throughout different healthcare settings and carried out by a variety of organizational methods. Each delivery of care method used by an organization is determined by the effectiveness of economic issues, patient safety and quality given, and patient population. Team nursing, total patient care, primary nursing, and functional nursing are four models that have been dominant in most inpatient facilities. Functional and primary care delivery models are the most commonly used methods in the clinics (Liang & Turkcan, 2016).