“Rarely is there a comprehensive work of this magnitude produced to provide intense and practical direction.…This work…is a must read for those nurse leaders following in our footsteps. It will enable them to increase their knowledge of the systems and processes required to implement, sustain, and measure professional nursing practice while providing a strategic framework to guide their plans for their organizations in the future.”
—Karen S. Hill, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, FAAN, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Nursing Administration, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer, Central Baptist Hospital, From the Foreword
“Dr. Joanne Duffy is an authority in developing practice models.…This text effectively creates a blueprint for how to make this process as meaningful as possible regardless of the model chosen or the type of organization.…One of the highlights that is often missed and that Dr. Duffy clearly illustrates is the critical importance of evaluation.… The principles, rationale, best-practice examples, and reflective questions include crucial information needed to fully integrate professional practice models. The author delivers one of the most important works on this topic to date.”
—Karen Cox, RN, PhD, FACHE, FAAN, Executive Vice President/Co-Chief Operating Officer Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, From the Foreword
This is the first resource to demonstrate to nurse leaders, administrators, and staff how to develop, apply, and successfully integrate a professional practice model into a health system. It delivers best practices for creating, implementing, evaluating, adapting, adopting, and revising professional practice models that contribute to improving patient outcomes. Consolidating a wealth of information in one place, the text describes a coordinated and consistent approach that generates an in-depth understanding of professional practice models, including their implementation and evaluation.
Distinguished by its focus on the “how to” of successful enculturation—a common obstacle for many nursing professionals—the text guides nurse leaders and educators in the process of integrating professional practice models into clinical workflow, advancing nursing practice, improving the quality of patient care, and facilitating Magnet® designation. Specific methods and implementation strategies are delineated along with tipping points and milestones. Real-life examples offer relevant lessons from others who have encountered problems and created successful solutions along the way. They describe approaches, resolutions to problems, unique insights, and meaningful revisions. Opportunities for reflection and case analysis are presented and chapters—each with comprehensive, concise, evidence-based content—include learning objectives, key summary points, reflective exercises, illustrations, charts, and “learning from the field” insets.
KEY FEATURES:
- Encompasses essential information for developing, applying, and diffusing a professional practice model
- Provides comprehensive, concise, and evidence-based content
- Written by a renowned nurse leader, educator, and researcher with expertise in the enculturation of professional practice models
- Addresses one of the criteria necessary for Magnet® designation
- Includes a strong disciplinary perspective with a focus on professionalism and demonstrating value
Contents
Contributors
Foreword Karen S. Hill, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, FAAN
Foreword Linda Burnes Bolton, DrPH, RN, FAAN
Foreword Karen Cox, PhD, RN, FACHE, FAAN
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I. FROM AWARENESS TO COMMITMENT
1. Professional Practice Models: Raising Awareness
Learning From the Field: What Are Professional Practice Models?
Lois M. Stalling-Weldon, Cherona Hajewski, and Maria R. Shirey
Learning From the Field: Consistency Between a Specialty’s Recommendations for Advancing Professional Practice and a Nursing Theoretical Model
Susan Chasson and Jennifer Pierce-Weeks
2. The Importance of Professional Practice Models: Appreciating Significance
Learning From the Field: The Value of Professional Practice Models
Linda Q. Everett
3. Professionalism, Interprofessionalism, and Leadership: Commitment
Learning From the Field: Building the Case for Nursing Professional Capital
Sue Lasiter
PART II. FROM DESIGN TO ENCULTURATION
4. Components of Professional Practice Models: Design
Learning From the Field: Building the Patient Care Delivery System Based on the Professional Practice Model—A Journey of Synergistic Development
Barbara Summers
5. Application of Professional Practice Models: Implementation
Learning From the Field: Importance of the Chief Nurse Executive During Implementation
Janet Fansler
Learning From the Field: Innovative Implementation Calls
Polly Roush
6. Assessing the Success of Professional Practice Models: Evaluation
Learning From the Field: How Unit-Level Formative Data Improved Implementation Progress
Joanne R. Duffy
Learning From the Field: Communication of Outcomes Data Using Graphical Displays
Eileen Caulfield
7. Refining the Professional Practice Model Within a Health System: Adaptation
Learning From the Field: How a Professional Practice Model Together With a Spirit of Inquiry Led to a Practice Adaptation
Martha Sleutel, Janet Larrimore, and Malika Qureshi
8. Translating a Professional Practice Model Into Everyday Practice: Adoption
Learning From the Field: Individual Adoption of the Quality-Caring Model©
Shauna Bendix
9. Values and Behaviors Associated With Exemplary Professional Practice: Enculturation
Learning From the Field: How Our Professional Practice Model Became a Magnet® Exemplar
Mary Teague, Debbie Manns, and Martha Sleutel
PART III. FROM APPLICATION TO IMPACT
10. Enduring Professional Practice Models: Sustainment
Learning From the Field: Professional Practice Model Sustainability
Judy E. Davidson
11. Spreading Lessons Learned and Best Practices: Dissemination
Learning From the Field: An Interview With Two Vice Presidents on “Scaling Up”
Alice Siehoff and Susan Okuno-Jones
12. Power of Professional Practice Models: Impact
Learning From the Field: Impact of a Living Professional Practice Model on a Patient’s Question—“How Long Would It Take to Die?”
Pamela Duncan and Chantel Fusco
Afterword
Appendix A. Example: Values Clarification Workshop
Appendix B. Example: Implementation Booster Sessions
Appendix C. Example: Organizational Assessment of Professional Practice Model Integration
Index
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- Release Date: January 14, 2016
- Paperback / softback
- 320 Pages
- Trim Size: 6in x 9in
- ISBN: 9780826126436
- eBook ISBN: 9780826126443