Assignment: Nurse Practitioner Care Model

Assignment: Nurse Practitioner Care Model
Assignment: Nurse Practitioner Care Model
This Assignment targets this course outcome:
MN502-3: Evaluate the application of models of practice to the advanced nurse roles.
What is the difference between a model and a theory?
A model demonstrates the researcher’s interpretation of how concepts are related to one another and is developed based on qualitative research. A theory is a hypothesis tested and measured to explain, predict, describe, and prescribe relationships between concepts and is developed through quantitative research.
In short, the difference between a model and a theory is the amount of proof that exists in demonstrating the outcomes they predict.
What do models and theories have in common?
Both models and theories show relationships between concepts. Models often are precursors to theory development.
Directions
Locate a model of practice that you could apply to nursing. It does not need to be a nursing model. Models of practice can be found in leadership, business, education, and technology. Explain how you will use the model you chose in your advanced practice role.
Use the them for this Assignment. In the first column, list the characteristics of the model of practice you chose. In the second column, list your application to your advanced nursing practice role upon graduation. In the first row, in the first column, write the name of your chosen model. An example has been provided in the first rows to guide you. Please remove the examples when entering your information.
Nurse Practitioner Care Model
MN502 Unit 7 Assignment
Nurse Practitioner Care Model
In a fast-changing clinical environment, designing organizational delivery systems is essential for the production of high-quality clinical care services that are not only efficient but also cost effective. At the epitome of the restructuring of care delivery plan is the changing role of nurse practitioners (NPs)as a member of interdisciplinary team in clinical practice. It is also informed by the need to integrate the role of the NP into the health care. The role of the NP is called for by the growing number of patients requiring holistic, long-term, and coordinated care (such as the elderly and the chronically ill) (Roger, et al., 2012). This discussion considers the main characteristics of the model and postulates the applications of the model characteristics in advanced nurse practice. It is underscored that the model offers a platform for providing clinical responses that are proactive and innovative towards the changing of clinical environment.
Model Characteristics for the Nurse Practitioner Care Model Application to Advanced Practice Role
Utilizing of the advanced clinical judgment through expert clinical practice cognizant of systems thinking while upholding accountability when providing evidence-based health care at advanced nurse practice level. Clinical judgment will be essential in evaluation of the impact of the continuous changes common in clinical practice (National Institutes of Health., 2015). Particularly, this characteristic will help in formulation of clinical recommendations in regard to the appropriateness of care and its cost effectiveness.
Consultation at intra and inter-professional levels as a nurse practitioner. It is important that clinical practice delivers direct care in a coordinated and interdisciplinary plan to all patients seeking care from a health care facility. The model characteristic informs the role of an advanced nurse practitioner as a consultant facilitating improvements in the care on the basis of expertise in specific areas of specialization (Kutzleb, et al., 2015). Therefore, as an advanced practitioner applying this model, it is expected that the nurse:
• provides needful professional guidance that would enable the effective implementation of the roles of a nurse practitioner according to legislation and professional requirements. • monitors the process of role implementation and its progress. • ensures that the clinical practice is safe to patients and that quality outcomes offer information for future service development or improvement.
Ongoing research-based practice that enable continuous designing of standards of care that are specific to a particular population of patients. For progressive practice, it is essential that learning needs are identified for the different populations handled. It should essentially contribute to the process improvement and development of service educational programs for human resource improvement. For instance, it may be needful to identify if there are marginalized community groups and how such groups can be helped to access traditional health services (Bahouth, Blum, & Simone, 2012). These groups may include clients having health problems like mental health, substance abuse disorders, sexual health, or may be homeless individuals.
Provision of leadership on the basis of clinical, professional, and systems standards. In practice, this characteristic is helpful in enhancement of the delivery of comprehensive health care for patients. It therefore will enable a nurse practitioner and the inter-professional team to identify opportunities for focusing the care plan on the appropriateness of interventions in complex and highly reimbursed scenarios of patients (Stewart, &DeNisco, 2013). As an agent of change, the NP is skilled to assess and reassess complex patient scenarios that may require systemic changes in the health care. Therefore, this characteristic place the NP in position to provide assistance for clinicians and other providers in the care team to master the new knowledge acquired out of clinical experience and change behavior.
Collaboration among members of the multidisciplinary health care team It is the duty of the NP to identify and ensure collaborative relationships are built and maintained with physicians and other care teams in the health care. The focus of the NP in this model characteristic is on how to coordinate care services in order to promote the needed interdisciplinary collaboration (Buttaro, Trybulski, Polgar-Bailey & Sandberg-Cook, 2012). The collaboration should be aimed at ensuring the effective management of the needs of individual patient. Therefore, when implementing the care model, it will be the focus of collaborating members to ensure that the needs of individual patients, clinical staffs, and the entire care organization are met in order to attain successful patient outcomes.
In conclusion, the NP Model of Care has its focus on the overall coordination of health care services targeting the interaction between a nurse and patient as well as the collaboration with other members of the health care teams in both acute and post-acute care.
References
Bahouth, M. N., Blum, K., &Simone, S. (2012). Transitioning into hospital based practice: A guide for nurse practitioners and administrators. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Buttaro, T. M., Trybulski, J., Polgar-Bailey, P., & Sandberg-Cook, J. (2012). Primary care – e-book: a collaborative practice. Amsterdam: Elsevier Health Sciences.
Kutzleb, J., Rigolosi, R., Fruhschien, A… et al. (2015). Nurse practitioner care model: meeting the health care challenges with a collaborative team. Nursing Economics, 33(66), 297-304.
National Institutes of Health. (2015). Nurse practitioners at the NIH. Retrieved from http://www.cc.nih.gov/c
Roger, V. L., Go, A. S., Loyd-Jones, D. M., Benjamin, E. J., Berry, J.D., Borden, W.B., … Turner, M.B. (2012). Heart disease and stroke statistics 2012 update: A report from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 125(1), e2-e220
Stewart, J. G., &DeNisco, S. N. (2013). Role development for the nurse practitioner. New York, NY: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.