APPLICATION AND INTEGRATION OF A MODEL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

APPLICATION AND INTEGRATION OF A MODEL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE



APPLICATION AND INTEGRATION OF A MODEL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Introduction

Synergy is an embryonic conception that occurs when individuals take action in jointly affianced customs to encourage constructive conclusion for patients. The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care associates exercise and result. The principle is that positive patient conclusions will occur when patient description and nurse's character work in equally enhancing customs and that these results will appear if a nurse demonstrates the competencies in relation to patients' needs. The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care takes a complete look at the patient and puts the patient at the focus of nursing practice. A big tenet of this model is that patient characteristics are significant to nurses, and nurse characteristics are significant to patients.

Body: Discussion and Analysis

Patient Characteristics the 8 patient characteristics identified in the model are resiliency, susceptibility, constancy, difficulty, supply accessibility, contribution in care, participation in decision making, and predictability. Note that these characterizes are not labeled in terms of body systems, but in terms of characteristics with which patients may present during some course of the- illness. All patients have similar needs and experiences that occur during different phases of illness and. logically, sicker patients have lighter levels of need. In the following examples, these levels range from 1 to 5, with 5 being high. (Hardin, Kaplow, 2005)

Resiliency is defined as the capacity of returns to a restorative level of functioning by using compensatory coping mechanisms. A patient with low levels of resiliency might be one whose compensatory mechanisms have failed, who may already have plaque on his arteries from eating certain cookies as a youngster. A patient with high levels of resiliency is able to maintain a response; Vulnerability is described as vulnerability to actual or potential Stressors that may adversely affect patient outcomes. These outcomes can be physiological and psychological. A highly vulnerable patient is one who is susceptible and unprotected. Every patient is potentially vulnerable if the nurse's response is slow. A level 5, or minimally vulnerable, patient is "out of the woods"; for example, a level 5 patient would be one who is ready to be transferred out of the intensive care unit (ICU). A vulnerable patient may have just been weaned from the ventilator and could use an extra day in the ICU. However, because there is a sicker, less stable patient on the floor, the less vulnerable patient must be transferred. (Cox, Reed, 2007)

Stability is defined as the ability to maintain steady state equilibrium. A level 1 patient is minimally .stable, is unresponsive to therapy, and is at high risk of dying. A level 5 patient is highly stable and responds well to therapy. Complexity is defined as the intricate entanglement of 2 or more systems, such as body, family, and therapies. A level 1 patient would have complex family dynamics or a vague, atypical type of presentation that you haven't seen ...