Building a Nursing Productivity Measure Based on the Synergy Model: First Steps

Kohr, Lisa M.; Hickey, Patricia A.; Curley, Martha A. Q.

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“…Productivity is known as the ratio of outputs to inputs (Finkelman, Kenner, 2013). While, nursing productivity is generally defined as the ratio of patient care hours per patient day to salary and benefit costs paid out to staff by the organization (Kohr et al, 2012). Others see nurse productivity as associated with both efficiency of use of clinical nursing in delivering nursing care and the effectiveness of that care related to its quality and appropriateness (Roussel, 2011).…”

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Creativity in Work: An Educational Program for Improving Nurses` Productivity

Elrhaman¹,

Ghoneimy²

2018

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Introduction Recently, with changing and expanded working settings, nurses repetitively act in unanticipated circumstances in different settings as a serious part of the healthcare sector to deliver holistic care for patients (Chan, 2013). To handle new and exceptional components in these difficult states, nurses must be ready to reply to any challenges in timely, effective, creative and adaptable ways. Creativity isn't new to the nursing career. Its presentation can be followed back to Myra Levine in 1973 and identified it as a daily occurrence which was fundamental to patient-nurse interactions (Murad, 2016). It is a main and a multifaceted issue in nursing profession and the most essential key to development of both human services and nursing. What's more, it is perceived as the formation of novel, appropriate and helpful thoughts. Also, it is the mental work or activity involved in bringing something new. In order for the nurses to be creative; should be equipped for seeing things in new routes or from an alternate point of view, ready to create new potentials or new options, communicate ideas and values (Bruise, 2016). Additionally, creativity is an attitude to accept change and a readiness to play with ideas and opportunities, a flexibility of viewpoint, the practice of liking the good, while searching for approaches to enhance it. To engage in creative behavior, nurses need management support, resources, supportive work environment, and knowledge about creativity and nurses' role. Accordingly, nurses' creativity does not just rely upon individual qualities and their own creativity. The social or work workplace, education, reward system, and management style can impact both the level and the recurrence of creative behavior (Dul et al., 2011). Creativity assessment broadly sorts into a few categories of measurements: creative products, creative cognition, creative traits, and creative behavior and accomplishments (Silvia et al., 2012). In any case, it is generally indicated "the four P's" representing the four dimensions of creativity "person, process, press, and product". Firstly; a person centers on the character of creative individuals. Secondly; process is the mechanisms that inspire creative thinking or action. Thirdly; press alludes to environments that interact with the creative person to best carry out creativity. Last items are products outcomes; the most target way to deal with measure creativity (Pujiriyanto,2016).

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Creativity in Work: An Educational Program for Improving Nurses` Productivity

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2018

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“…However, previous studies have identified the type of information required for nurses to evaluate patients, 15 and the information provided in the case studies used in our study may have been insufficient for evaluation by comparison. The resulting difficulty in assessing patient characteristics may have affected the assessment of the nursing competencies required in their treatment.…”

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Development of the Japanese version of the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care

Ito¹

2017

NCOAJ

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In this study, we translated the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care into Japanese, and investigated the value of applying the synergy model to simulated case studies of acute patients.The permission of the original model developers was obtained before work began on producing the Japanese version. Preliminary testing was carried out to verify the effects of using the Japanese version of the model. The participants in this study were 13 nurses with at least five years of nursing experience (mean 9.9±4.5years) who were working in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or High Care Unit (HCU) wards. The simulated case studies used in this research were based on those described in the utilization of the original synergy model.By evaluating the case studies using the Japanese version of the synergy model, we could confirm that the order of importance assigned to items was slightly consistent between participants (Case .424, df=7). Therefore, our results suggested that the Japanese version of the synergy model could be applied to clinical practice in Japan. In the future, however, larger samples are required in order to truly test the validity and reliability of this new tool.

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“…The Synergy Model for Patient Care has been used in a variety of circumstances and for a variety of purposes. Examples of recent uses include staff development, 19 building a nursing productivity measure, 20 and care of patients with acute coronary syndromes. 21 …”

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Adaptation of the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care to Critical Care Transport

Swickard

Reimer

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Critical Care Nurse

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Today’s health care delivery system relies heavily on interhospital transfer of patients who require higher levels of care. Although numerous tools and algorithms have been used for the prehospital determination of mode of transport, no tool for the transfer of patients between hospitals has been widely accepted. Typically, the interfacility transport decision is left to the discretion of the referring provider, who may or may not be aware of the level of care provided or the means of transport available. A need exists to determine the appropriate level of care required to meet the needs of patients during transport. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Synergy Model for Patient Care is a patient-centered model that focuses on optimizing patient care by matching the characteristics of the patient with the competencies of the nurse. This model shows significant promise in providing the theoretical backing to guide the decision on the level of care necessary to complete interfacility transfers safely and effectively. This article describes a new tool inspired by the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care to determine the appropriate level of care required for interfacility transport.

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Building a Nursing Productivity Measure Based on the Synergy Model: First Steps

Cited by 23 publications

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Creativity in Work: An Educational Program for Improving Nurses` Productivity

Creativity in Work: An Educational Program for Improving Nurses` Productivity

Development of the Japanese version of the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care

Adaptation of the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care to Critical Care Transport

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