Nursing Care & Communication: Summary of Research Article Review

This assignment provides summaries of three distinct healthcare-related articles. The first article, "Nursing Care with a Human Approach": A Model for Practice with Service Excellence,” focuses on establishing a care model for consistent improvement in nursing practice, emphasizing patient-focused care, ethical considerations, and the importance of indicators for follow-up in areas like technology, knowledge, and risk management. The second article, “Physician and nursing perceptions concerning interprofessional communication and collaboration,” investigates the perceptions of nurses and physicians regarding collaboration and communication, highlighting differences in their opinions on the effectiveness of nurses' roles in decision-making and the impact of unresolved tensions on teamwork dynamics. The final article, “Nursing Care in Alcohol and Drug User Treatment Facilities,” addresses the increasing demand for integrated healthcare for substance-using populations, the underutilization of addiction nursing practices due to narrow job descriptions, and the need for standardized medical roles and clarity in nursing skills and knowledge within alcohol and drug treatment facilities.

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The article titled “Nursing Care with a Human Approach": A Model for Practice with
Service Excellence” states that service reaching teams react to the call of global patterns or
trends which are geared toward nursing practice qualification. The aim of the study was to
establish a care model for clinical practice which permits a consistent improvement and
enhancement in nursing practice or care. The method used encompassed descriptive
methodology which was created in sequential stages which comprised identifying the need of
having a care model in nursing care, characterizing the desired scenario and context, literature
reviews, describing the model, and validating the theoretical proposal. Some of the key words
used to obtain information included patient-focused care, nursing methodological research,
nursing care, nursing theory, and nursing model. Carvajal Hermida and Sánchez-Herrera (2018),
advocates that current advances in nursing field show that nursing models can be appropriate
measures to respond to the demand of worldwide agenda as well as nursing leadership
development. The descriptive methodology search for documentations and systematized the
nursing data to allow better understanding and comprehension of nursing practice in relation to
particular organizational context and human health experience.
The research considered both environmental and ethical facets in every stage of the study.
The article found that the type of care-based model used be identified considering that it ought to
respond to organizational framework of high quality or value service and should mirror out
nursing care commitment when executed. The research also found that care models ought to
countenance indicators on the basis of follow-ups to ensure improvements in critical fields such
as technology management, knowledge management, risk management, and humanization in
care (Clavelle and Goodwin, 2016). The article concluded that nursing theoretical models aid in

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visualizing, qualifying clinical practice, and care transformation. The study concluded that
implementation of nursing models can favor establishment of public policy, research in care,
nursing training, and quality of services.
On the other hand, the article titled “Physician and nursing perceptions concerning inter-
professional communication and collaboration” states that collaboration among the care
providers is critical in the healthcare environment because a single profession cannot meet or
satisfy patients’ needs (Lewin & Reeves, 2011). The aim of the study involved investigating the
nursing and physician perceptions in regards to collaboration and communication and the factors
which can influence the aforementioned activities. The study used self-administered
questionnaires survey to collect data from a random sample of 197 nurses and 93 physicians. It
utilized SPSS to perform chi square, t-test, and descriptive statistics. The descriptive study was
particularly designed or tailored to examine physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions in regards to
their collaboration and factors which influence the collaboration (Matziou et al., 2014).
The study found that physicians and nurses do not share similar opinions in regards to
effectiveness of nurses’ roles in decision making and their communication. Additionally, the
study found that the most critical impediment for creation of good relationships between the two
professions includes the failure of the physicians to recognize the professional role of the nurses.
The study also found that unresolved tension influences nurses and physician collaboration and
teamwork dynamics because of historical interpersonal interaction and power relationship
(Matziou et al., 2014). The article concluded that the physicians and nurses ought to
acknowledge the significance of effective collaboration and communication and the two
professions ought to develop and execute inter-professional teamwork intervention to enhance

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collaboration. Similarly, factors which improve a physician’s attitude towards effective
communication and collaboration need further exploration.
Lastly, the article titled “Nursing Care in Alcohol and Drug User Treatment Facilities”
outlines the increasing demand for the provision of integrated health care to substance using
populace and psychiatric. It deliberates on factors that stakeholders can use to alter flawed
limited access to substance users and employment patterns. Some of the keywords used to obtain
information included comprehensive care, best practices, job description, regulatory system,
substance users, integrated care, and nursing (Naegle, 2015). The article states that associated
with addiction nursing practices are mostly underutilized due to narrow job description.
According to the article, alcohol and drug treatment facilities such as opioid treatment program
should be controlled by registered nurses. Medical roles such as patient management and medical
diagnosis are not well described by the job description.
According to Naegle (2015), job description for medical roles are not standardized across
all the health care facilities and deficiency of clarity in regards to skills and knowledge related to
the differences in certification and licensing of nurses has become common. The standards of
American Nurses Association indicate that there is no medical discipline apart from nursing
which have better education to engage the patients in regards to self-care and teaching from
acute care to relapse preventions American Nurses (Association (ANA) & International Nurses
Society on Addictions (INTNSA) (2013). The article concludes that the anticipated rise in the
need for services and state agencies funding ought to catalyze evaluation of nursing labor force
to enhance the provision of care.

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References
American Nurses Association (ANA), & International Nurses Society on Addictions (INTNSA).
(2013). Addictions nursing: Scope and standards of practice. Silver Springs,MD:
American Nurses Association.
Carvajal Hermida, E. Y., & Sánchez-Herrera, B. (2018). " Nursing Care with a Human
Approach": A Model for Practice with Service Excellence. Aquichan, 18(2).
Clavelle JT, Goodwin M. (2016) The center for nursing excellence: A health system model for
intentional improvement and innovation. J Nurs Adm. 46(11):613–8.
Lewin, S., & Reeves, S. (2011). Enacting ‘team’ and ‘teamwork’: using Goffman’s theory of
impression management to illuminate interprofessional practice on hospital wards. Social
Science & Medicine, 72, 1595–1602.
Matziou, V., Vlahioti, E., Perdikaris, P., Matziou, T., Megapanou, E., & Petsios, K. (2014).
Physician and nursing perceptions concerning interprofessional communication and
collaboration. Journal of interprofessional care, 28(6), 526-533.
Naegle, M. A. (2015). Nursing care in alcohol and drug user treatment facilities. Substance use
& misuse, 50(8-9), 1153-1158.