Nursing Care at the Service of Life: A model including charity, quality, and leadership

Abstract

Background Nursing professional practice models allow the focus on care and qualification of hospital service by articulating the theory to the practice of nursing care with the final purpose of improving the patient's and family caregivers' quality of life. Objective To describe the model “Nursing care at the service of life,” built and validated in a Colombian clinic, 2019. Method A Nursing Methodology Research developed in four consecutive steps intended to identify the need to have a theoretical framework; to build it and validate it in a collective way that included the different members of the clinic nursing staff. Results The main concepts and articulated assumptions of the nursing practice model were described. The model will help the nursing staff to achieve the institutional mission. Conclusions The professional practice Model “Nursing care at the service of life” reflects the nursing profession's charity, quality, and leadership, as a hospital care axis. The institution's nursing staff were able to identify themselves in the model's approach, also the expert criteria endorsed the construction process and content. The validation process done with the nurse's staff demonstrates that this model is accepted and useful to guide the nursing caring practices within the clinic.

Development of a Professional Practice Nursing Model for a University Nursing School and Teaching Hospital: A nursing methodology research

“…Other models have also focused on the patient and his family, with a humanized care (Abdelhafiz et al, 2016 ; Pérez‐Vergara et al, 2021 ), highlight the importance of integrally considering the subject of care as a social being and not only as a subject affected by his health needs. They include the patient, his family or caregivers in decision‐making both to improve the health situation, reintegrating the person into daily life, with the best possible conditions or accompanying him in a good death with humanized care (Pérez‐Vergara et al, 2021 ).…”

“…This professional practice models has common elements with others (Slatyer et al, 2016): the centrality of care for patient and family (Carvajal-Hermida & Sánchez-Herrera, 2018;Pérez-Vergara et al, 2021), the scientific-technical competences of the nurse (Johnson, 2014;Meehan et al, 2018;Murphy et al, 2018;Yuedan et al, 2019), the consideration of the environment as an element that contributes to the quality of relationships and therefore to the delivery of care (Holskey & Rivera, 2020;Johnson, 2014;Sohal, 2020;Younas & Quennell, 2019) and taking into consideration the values central to the institution (Murphy et al, 2018;Yuedan et al, 2019).…”