Promoting Professional Nursing Practice: Linking a Professional Practice Model to Performance Expectations

Professional practice models for nursing: a review of the literature and synthesis of key components

“…A prominent theme was that a PPM should provide a framework to support the professional development of nurses. Firstly, nurses required critical thinking and technical expertise to inform independent and collaborative practice (Erickson & Ditomassi 2011, Murphy et al 2011. Secondly, the advancement and recognition of nurses were positively linked to nurse retention (Erickson & Ditomassi 2011).…”

“…The concept of compensating nurses was closely linked to their professional growth (Erickson & Ditomassi 2011, Latta & Davis-Kirsch 2011. Accordingly, a number of PPMs required a revision of nurses' job descriptions to reflect desired competencies, and performance appraisal systems to drive nurses' development (Duffy et al 2007, Mullen & Asher 2007, Murphy et al 2011.…”

Nursing professional practice models:an integrative literature review

“…A nursing professional practice model is a conceptual framework that enables nurses to predict and communicate their practice; it provides the foundation for the provision of safe, high-quality and patient-centered care (Slatyer et al, 2015). Some authors (Murphy, Hinch, Llewellyn, Dillon, & Carlson, 2011;Basol, Hilleren-Listerud, & Chmielewski, 2015) believe that the PPM describes how nurses practice, collaborate, communicate and develop professionally; it defines what is important for nurses and guides the current and future nursing practice. Other researchers (Berger et al, 2012) added that the PPM should reflect and guide nursing professional practice and serve as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of nursing.…”

“…From this perspective, all nurses need to be familiar with the PPM and describe how they apply it in their daily practice, either direct care nurses, nurses with complementary functions, teachers, managers or directors (Berger et al, 2012). The integration of the nursing professional practice model is a complex organizational change (Basol et al, 2015;Murphy et al, 2011). Therefore, when implementing a PPM, it is important to take into account how organizational change will affect nurses and how that change can be achieved (Berger et al, 2012).…”