Professional Practice Model
What is a Professional Practice Model?
A professional practice model is a system or framework that supports professional nurses in their everyday practice. This model supports our belief in the importance of superior patient care based on partnerships between nursing and other clinicians, patients, families and the community.
Putting Words to our Professional Practice Model
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Arching words are our Outcomes:
- Quality & Safety
- Expert Care
- Professionalism
The Center represents our Caring and Compassion, which enables us to connect
with our Patients-Family- Community-“Family Centered Care”
The mountain represents no beginning or no end. Demonstrating how each
comment connects-
C H A N G E VALUES:
- Customer Satisfaction
- Honor and Respect
- Accountability
- New Ideas
- Growing Continuously
- Excellence
Just Culture
Accountability
- Accepting responsibility/ownership
- Owning up to gaps in knowledge
- Quality of choice
- Reporting errors and system vulnerabilities
- Following through: “Do what you say”
- Conviction and courage to do the right thing despite what others think
Responding to events in a fair and just manner Focus on risk, system design
and behavioral choices
Balancing system and individual accountability Support and thriving learning systems.
Expertise and Knowledge
- Certification
- Clinical Ladder
- Advanced degree
- Continuing Education (Life Long Learning)
- Competency
Shared Governance
- Shared decision making
- Nurses having control over their own practice
- Collaboration
- Communication
Leadership
- Innovation
- Voice Advocacy
- Commitment to my co-worker
- Transformational Leadership
- Peer Review
- Champion
Evidence Based Practice
- Research
- Innovation
- Performance Improvement
- Change
- Best Practice
Coaching and Mentoring
- Championing of cause
- Role modeling
- Guidance
- Trusting partnership
