Extending the Synergy Model to preceptorship: a preliminary proposal

Propos Corollary for the Synergy Model

Webster (1) defines a corollary as "something that naturally follows" from something other When I consider the American Association for Critical-Care nourishs (AACN) Synergy Model for Patient Care with a clinician's organ of vision I can immediately see the relevance and elegance of its central characteristic--that is, that optimal patient care can best be achieved when the patient's characteristics (express as needs) are matched by the agency of the nurse's characteristics (expressed as competencies). Because the patient and supply with nourishment interact within a healthcare a whole that both possesses and exhibits its have attributes, a third component of the pattern needs to be recognized that could affect consequences in either or both of the other constitutings (Figure 1).

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When I view the Synergy original from a staff development perspective, however, my mind's organ of sight can quickly reconfigure 2 constituents of this triad--transforming Nurse to Preceptor and Patient to Preceptee--and then readily appreciate the relevance and elegance of its corollary attribute; that is, that optimal orientation of the preceptee can best be achieved when the preceptee's characteristics (express as needs) are matched by the agency of the preceptor's characteristics (expressed as competencies). Just as the patient and supply with nourishment interact within the healthcare combination of parts to form a whole the same holds true for the preceptee and preceptor, recreating a parallel triad of interacting composings that could affect outcomes in the orientation proces (Figure 2)

If the Synergy design is transferable from patient care to preceptorship, the natural extensions of this protoplast should evidence some degree of comparability and continuity quite through the major tenets of the model; for example, basic assumptions underlying the design and the respective sets of nurture (preceptor) and patient (preceptee) characteristics. In this Editorial, I will tender a proposed application for sole the first of these structural beliefs.

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Basic Assumptions Underlying the Synergy Model

The Synergy protoplast is rooted in a total of 9 assumptions. The first 5 were identified in 2000 (2) and the last 4 were added through the AACN Certification Corporation (3) a not many years later. Most of these assumptions relate to the patient and/or the supply with nourishment although the hospital system is addressed directly and indirectly in others. If this protoplast can legitimately apply to a preceptorship, many, greatest in quantity or all of the same place of assumptions should hold real The Table identifies the 9 assumptions on which the Synergy Model of Patient Care is based and presents a preliminary set of corollary assumptions that might be propos for the preceptorship format of orientation.

Before suggesting any additional applications of the Synergy mould to preceptorship, I'd like to solicit your reactions, critique, and suggestions related to this initial proposal; that is, that the basic assumptions underlying AACN's Synergy protoplast of Patient Care can be applied with comparable relevance to describe basic assumptions that underlie a synergy that can be achieved in the relationship between a nourish preceptor and preceptee.

Please jaculate your thoughts (reactions, critique, suggestions) upon this (whether the Synergy Model's assumptions are transferable to Preceptorship) no later than June 15 2006 to Grif at synergy_assumptions@comcast.net.

References

1 Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Available at: hllp://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=corollary. Accessed February 14 2006

2 American Association of Critical-Care nourishs Standards for Acute and Critical Care Nursing Practice. 3rd ed Aliso Viejo, Calif: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses; 2000

3 Muenzen PM Greenburg s Pirrol KA. Final Report of a Comprehensive inquiry of Critical Care Nursing Practice. Available at: http://www.certcorp.org/certcorp/cerlcorp.nsf/certcorp/ccrn?opendocurnent#Role%20Delineation%20%2F%20CCRN%20Validatio_1. Accessed February 14 2006

Grif Alspach, RN MSN EdD

Editor