AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care Exam
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Resiliency - ✔️✔️Capacity to return to restorative level of functioning using
compensatory/coping mechanisms; the ability to "bounce back" after an insult
Predictability - ✔️✔️Characteristic that allows one to expect a certain course of
events/illness
Participation in Decision Making - ✔️✔️Extent to which patient/family engages in
decision making
Participation in Care - ✔️✔️Extent to which patient/family engages in aspects of
care
Nurse Characteristics - ✔️✔️Nursing care reflects integration of knowledge, skills,
abilities, and experience necessary to meet the needs of patients/families.
Mnemonic:
Clearly Caring, Conscious Customer Service Requires Following AACN/Model
Clinical Judgement
Caring Practices
Collaboration
Clinical Inquiry
Systems Thinking
, Response to Diversity
Advocacy/Moral Agency
All 8 are essential for contemporary nursing practice, but each is more/less
important depending on patient characteristics.
Synergy is when patient's needs/characteristic are matched with nurse's
competencies.
Clinical Judgement - ✔️✔️Clinical reasoning (decision making, critical thinking,
global grasp of situation) + nursing skills acquired through process of integrating
education, experiential knowledge, and evidence-based guidelines
Caring Practices - ✔️✔️Nursing activities that create a compassionate, supportive,
therapeutic environment for patients/staff
Aim to promote comfort and healing, prevent unnecessary suffering
Include (but not limited to) vigilance, engagement, responsiveness to caregivers
(family AND healthcare personnel)
Collaboration - ✔️✔️Working with others (i.e. patients, families, healthcare
providers) in a way that encourages each person's contributions toward achieving
optimal/realistic patient/family goals
Involves intra/interdisciplinary work with colleagues/community.
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