Question

Write a one page (APA formatted) argument for formally selecting and utilizing a conceptual framework as an overarching model for your clinical practice. In what manner would this help you to improve the care you provide? 

Answer 1

A conceptual framework (synonymous with model) is defined as a set of concepts and those assumptions that integrate them into a meaningful configuration. More concrete than a framework, a theory is a set of interrelated concepts, definitions, and propositions that present a systematic view of phenomena by specifying those relationships.

*Benefits to the patient:

It helps the the critical thinking for the nursing process. The nursing process is how the nurse should be organizing and thinking about the daily care of the patient. Because nurses have become more task-oriented and physician order has driven, the decision was made by the framework development team to highlight the nursing process as an integral contributor to excellent patient care. "The nursing process encompasses all significant actions taken by registered nurses and forms the foundation of the nurse's decision-making." This is the nurse's direct contribution to the patient.

*Benefits to the profession:

It helps the level of expected behavior in the professional role. The framework helps professional nurses affect and influence healthcare through professional performance. Research demonstrates that professional development is an important domain for a Magnet work environment.

*Benefits to society:

The framework helps in the quality which includes safe, timely, effective, equitable, and patient-centered care. The impact made by nurses on the dimensions of quality demonstrates the nurse's integral role in our healthcare system. Excellent Patient Care was given by the provider's that is one of the dimensions of quality, Patient-Centered Care. The patient is placed in the center based on the Code of Ethics for Nursing, which states, "the nurse's primary commitment is the patient, whether an individual, family, group or community." Although nursing focuses on the outcomes of the patient in the center of our framework, our responsibility for quality and safety extends to the entire community.

The conceptual framework enhances the nurse's understanding of expectations as a professional regardless of his/her practice setting and serves as a guide for strategic planning, program development, and clinical practice for nursing