AACN SYNERGY CARE MODEL

AACN Synergy Care Model

AACN Synergy Care Model

The AACN Synergy Care Model as a Professional Model of Care

The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care enhances the understanding of The Synergy Model in practice. Based on a decade of work by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the text encompasses the history and development of the nurse and patient characteristics inherent in The Synergy Model, and then thoroughly addresses each characteristic individually and applies the model in practice. Sample test questions relevant to the model will assist nurses in preparing for certification through AACN, and provide further examples of the integration of The Synergy Model in Practice. (Curley, 1998)

Historical Evolution:

In the early 1990s, the leaders of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) embarked on a journey to define a new model to guide nursing practice and ultimately certification of critical care nurses. (Konstam, 1994)

The AACN Synergy Model describes a relationship between a patient and a nurse that acknowledges the importance of nursing care that is based on the needs of patients and their families.

Motivation for the model:

The AACN Model was developed to connect patient's outcomes with the clinical care practices. It emphasizes in the concept that patients come first and that nurses uniquely contribute to the results, costs containment and quality of care. Further it describes characteristics a patient brings to the health care system and the different types of competencies brought by a nurse to the bedside. (Massie, 1998)

Basis of the theory:

The main concept of the AACN model of Synergy care model is to show how the characteristics and needs of the families and patients drive and influence the competencies or characteristics of nurses. It states that synergy is the outcome of characteristics and needs of a clinical unit, system or patient are harmonized with the nurse's capabilities. The basis of this concept is related to the fact that when the nursing competencies and characteristics of patient are matched, they create synergy and results are optimized with the patient-nurse synergy.

Strategy of Knowledge Development of the Model:

The strategy behind the formulation of this Model was to increase the knowledge about the concept that patients comes first and there is a relation between the skills of the nurse and the characteristics a patients contains. (Hendrick, 2001)

Scholar:

A project force that is led by Dr Martha A. Q. Curley was planned in order to build an organizational structure that will take the dimension of the value in the nursing practices far away from the orientation of task and towards the recognition of the vital relationships that symbolizes the profession between the nurse and the patient.



Unique Focus of the Model:

The unique focus of this model is on the synergy of the patient and nurses. This characteristics focuses on the fact that nurse and patient having a very close relationship which effects both of them in an interconnected manner.

Overview of the Model:

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