Professional practice model for a hospital network: Nursing methodology research

The emergence of hospital networks requires nursing models to guide practice and research.

To develop a professional practice model to guide nursing care practice, teaching, and research in a teaching hospital network.

This study involved Nursing Methodology Research conducted within an academic-service partnership over three years in a hospital network in Colombia. It followed a humanistic theoretical framework and a collective construction technique with guideline-based development and analysis. It included four consecutive phases: 1) Identification of the need for the model within the Hospital Network, 2) recognition of nursing metaparadigm concepts for practice, 3) formulation and prioritization of the assumptions required to achieve nursing mission and vision, and 4) consolidation, sharing, and validation of the model. A total of 156 out of the 185 nurses in the organization participated.

The model developed for the Hospital Network consists of three essential components: compassion, safe care, and nursing leadership.

The collective participation of the nursing staff and the work made within the academic-service partnership facilitated the adoption of the model. This development responds to the Hospital Network's strategic guidelines for quality of care, includes internal and external validation, and adheres to international standards.

The "Leadership in Compassionate and Safe Care" nursing practice model guides, facilitates, and makes visible teaching and care practice and nursing research inside and outside of the Hospital Network.