Transforming practice using a caring-based nursing model

Nurs Adm Q. 2003 Jul-Sep;27(3):223-30. doi: 10.1097/00006216-200307000-00009.

Abstract

Today's health care environments are calling for new models of care delivery grounded in essential values. This article describes the results of a 2-year funded research project that intentionally grounded an acute care unit in the perspective of nursing as caring. Outcomes of care for patients, families, staff and the organization are described.

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease / nursing
  • Acute Disease / psychology
  • Empathy*
  • Florida
  • Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499
  • Hospitals, Proprietary
  • Humanism
  • Humans
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Models, Nursing*
  • Nurse's Role
  • Nurse-Patient Relations
  • Nursing Care / organization & administration*
  • Nursing Evaluation Research
  • Nursing Staff, Hospital / organization & administration*
  • Nursing Staff, Hospital / psychology
  • Organizational Innovation
  • Organizational Policy
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Patient-Centered Care / organization & administration*
  • Philosophy, Nursing*
  • Telemetry / nursing