Please provide additional information about the nursing theory or mode.docx
1. Please provide additional information about the nursing theory or model they have chosen
to support their Scholarly Project on.
Support with at least 2 scholarly reference.
Betty Neuman's Systems Model, Duffy's Quality Caring Model, and Liehr & Smith's Story
Theory are three nursing theories that are closely related to the chosen project, the use of a
standardized anesthesia handoff tool. The Neuman's Theory Model emphasizes stressful issues
that are hazardous to nurses' health and well-being. The nature of nurses' jobs can be exceedingly
stressful at times, especially when working in an unstructured atmosphere with inadequate
interprofessional collaboration and insufficient communication amongst care teams in the
postanesthetic care unit (PACU). It should come as no surprise that these characteristics might
lead to job dissatisfaction and burnout in PACU nurses who are recovering surgery patients in
the postanesthetic phase. This model considers a person's health system and its relationship to
external stresses as well as the body's responses to stressful conditions. Neuman's Theory is well
integrated in the development and implementation of a structured intervention, a standardized
anesthesia handoff tool, to ensure the accuracy and completeness of patient transfer from
anesthesia providers to PACU nurses, as well as to ensure team members' satisfaction with the
patient handoff process.
Duffy's Quality Caring Model was established on the premise of caring and is consisting of eight
fundamental components: "mutual issue resolution, attentive reassurance, recognition of unique
meanings, healing environment, human respect, encouraging style, basic human requirements,
and affiliation needs". Nursing leaders and academics employ caring behaviors to help nurses
flourish by initiating quality improvement projects to improve clinical practice and patient
outcomes. This model can be used as the foundation for implementing evidence-based practices
to improve healthcare process efficiencies. Using this model's caring nature as a framework
allows it to be used as a guide to develop and implement a quality improvement intervention,
such as the implementation of a standardized anesthesia handoff tool that promotes a more
effective method of handing over patient care from the operating suite to the recovery area.
The story Theory has acted as a guide to research and a story-aligned structure to nursing
practice, with underlying elements of relationship, health, and healing as the primary focus.
Stories assist health providers in comprehending the patient's background and health concerns as
they affect health promotion activities. When a story about significant events is conveyed, it is
possible to promote health. In this case, the anesthesia provider would explain to the PAU nurse
essential facts about the patient as well as events that transpired during the surgery in order to
promote patient recovery and a speedier return to preoperative state. The narrative Theory
approach provides a collaborative framework for generating testable quality improvement
measures in surgical patients' perioperative care to prevent complications and increase healing.
Recent initiatives have steered clinical practice toward evidence-based practice in order to
improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery. This has increased the need for greater
research to assist influence clinical practice, and front-line nurse leaders are taking action to
enhance the profession and the healthcare delivery system. Among the aforementioned ideas, the
Quality Caring Model is the most relevant to the problem of standardized anesthetic handoff.
2. This approach emphasizes interactions that affect favorable outcomes among patients, families,
professional colleagues, and organizational systems. Evidence suggests that positive caring
interprofessional interactions between care teams result in better health outcomes. The Quality
Caring Model, according to Duffy (2003), emphasizes the value of nursing practice in
accordance with evidence-based practice in modern-day healthcare by translating nursing
practice into testable evidence. The purpose of deploying the standardized anesthesia handoff
tool as a quality improvement scheme is to improve the process of transferring patients' care
from anesthesia doctors to the receiving PACU nurse. According to Hosseini's research, precise
patient and anesthetic information is frequently not given during PACU patient handover. As a
result, the importance of addressing these concerns to ensure patient safety is highlighted.
According to the Joint Commission (2017), failure to perform a high-quality handoff or
insufficient communication during the handoff report might result in a variety of adverse
outcomes, including sentinel occurrences.