Impact of Nursing Care Models on Patient Safety Outcomes

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Dubois, C. A., D'amour, D., Tchouaket, E., Clarke, S., Rivard, M., & Blais, R. (2013).
Associations of patient safety outcomes with models of nursing care organization at unit
level in hospitals. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 25(2), 110-117.
The authors in this paper investigated the impact of four distinct nursing care models on
the level of patient safety outcomes. The authors adopted a cross sectional and co-relational
study design. A standard protocol was designed by the researchers and accordingly the patient
record was rigorously screened in order to detect any occurrences of adverse happenings related
to patient-safety. The researchers adopted the binary logistic regression analysis technique to
compare the level of patient safety output with the nursing models. The study was in 22 medical
units across 11 healthcare Organizations in Quebec, Canada (Dubois et al., 2013). The four
nursing models that were compared included two functional and two professional models. The
study compared a patient size of 2649 patients hospitalized for a span of 48 hours. The study
aimed at evaluating the possibility of evaluating an adverse condition that would compromise
with patient safety. The conditions included administration of wrong medication and
mismanagement. The findings revealed that the application functional as well as the professional
model of nursing reduced the possibility of a medical error by 25% up to 52%. The nursing care
models were broadly based upon shift timings, work load and work environment and it was seen
that the professional model was associated with lower incidence of errors.
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