Extending the Synergy Model to Preceptorship

Extending the synergy model to preceptorship: a preliminary proposal.

Optimal patient care can best be achieved when the patient’s characteristics are matched by the nurse’s characteristics. Proposed Corollary for the Synergy Model Webster defines a corollary as “something that naturally follows” from something else. When I consider the American Association for Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Synergy Model for Patient Care with a clinician’s eye, I can immediately se...

Extending Functions in the Model Subspaces of H^2(R) to C

THE SYNERGY MODEL IN PRACTICE Applying the Synergy Model to Nursing Education

T he Synergy Model was adapted by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses as a basis for nursing practice and for CCRN and CCNS certification examinations. In the latter examination, a variety of scenarios typify how the Synergy Model is the basis for practice for the clinical nurse specialist. The model describes 7 characteristics that patients will manifest during various phases of t...

Extending the Uml to Model System Families

The system family paradigm aims towards developing several applications out of a domain with just one underlying architecture. The foundation of this core architecture are common properties. With this prefabricated core, systems can be build faster. Modeling and development of common parts and variants have to be supported by methods and notations. This paper extends the Unified Modeling Langua...

Preceptorship in Nursing Education

Education is challenged nowadays with the important for survival goal of facilitating change and learning. New meanings are now attributed to education such as learning how to learn rather than acquiring new knowledge (Rogers, 1983). In a constantly changing situation, where reliance on static knowledge does not make sense anymore, it is important to help students to develop autonomous ways of ...