Quality Caring Model In Nursing Field Analysis

Creating the Quality Caring Nursing Model in An Ever-Evolving Field

Justin Rojas

Chamberlain College of Nursing

Creating the Quality Caring Nursing Model in An Ever-Evolving Field With advancements to healthcare being made at an amazing pace, balancing the ever-evolving science of nursing with the art of caring became more difficult. Models which are the nursing department’s values and beliefs as well as the responsibility and authority to provide direct patient care were starting to become out dated. Models are the driving force of nursing care as they also serve as a framework to show and support the current discipline of the practice. An example would be the Children’s Mercy Hospitals and clinics a pediatric facility in

They brought on and commissioned eight nurses to evaluate the current model and then revise it to meet with current standards and values. “The American Nurses Credentialing Center (2008, p 64) reports that models are “the driving force of nursing care; a schematic description of a theory, phenomenon, or system that depicts how nurses practice, collaborate, communicate, and develop professionally to provide the highest quality care for those served by the organization (e.g., patients, families, community). Professional practice models illustrate the alignment and integration of nursing practice with a mission, vision, and values that nursing has adapted.” What was considered during the process was that the model was to be easily understood by direct care nurses and that the model represented the current culture of the nursing department. The unifying value was

To ensure that direct care nurses were educated about the model a self-paced four-step online tutorial was implanted to give a firm foundation of the QCM principles. Since models and theories are generally understood by direct care nurses, an education plan that consisted of providing a basic review of models and theories, a thorough review of the QCM’s factors and relationships, and providing examples of reminding the nurses of how caring is already occurring at the organization every day (Edmundson, 2012). Afterwards three measurement tools based off of the QCM such as the caring assessment tool, caring assessment tool-education, and caring assessment tool-administrative version II was soon to be integrated into future nursing