AACN SYNERGY CARE MODEL

AACN Synergy Care Model

AACN Synergy Care Model

The AACN Synergy Model as emerged as the acknowledged criteria of conceptual outline for critical and acute care in nursing field. It is based on years of experimental work done by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. It comprises of the historical development of the characters of nurses and patients that inherit in the Synergy model and it also addresses the characteristics of the individual patients and the skills and competencies of the nurse represented in the Synergy Model.

The ACCN Synergy model delivers a patient care scenario which identifies the relationship between the patient's characteristics and nurses' competencies as extremely important for getting high quality results. With the addition of spiritual context as an important aspect, the model makes the nursing model particularly a helpful guiding model for providing complete care to the patients.

Historical Evolution:

In early 1990's , the founders of ACCN moved on with a journey in order to describe a new model for providing guidance for the nursing practice and gradually it will provide a certificate for the critical care nursing. The project was led by Dr Martha A. Curley and built a framework which will generate the value of nursing practices and move them away from the task-oriented one to the recognize the important relationship between the patients and the nurses. The Synergy Model that was brought by ACCN was based on the principle that the results of patients are optimized when the characteristics of patients and competencies of nurses match each other.

Motivation for the model:

The American Association of Critical Care Nurses Model was created in order to link the outcomes of the patient's with the clinical practices held by nurses. The basic motivation for this Model was that, they wanted people to become aware of the concept that patients are the top most priority. Moreover, it also describes the set of characters which are brought by the patient to the system of health care and different types of skills that are contributed by the nurses in the health care system.

Model is based on:

The Synergy Care Model explains the core concept of how the characteristics of the patient and the needs of their families influence the skills and competencies of the nurses. The Model explains synergy as the harmonized relationship between the characteristics of the patient and the skills and capabilities of nurses. This concept is based on the fact that when the characteristics of a patient and the competencies of the nurses match with each other than a synergy is created with brings the optimization in the outcome of the patient.

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.

Strategies to formulate the Synergy Model:

The strategy behind the formulation of this Model was to raise the awareness about the concept that patients are the priority and that ...