Abstract

RIBEIRO, Olga Maria Pimenta Lopes; MARTINS, Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva  and  TRONCHIN, Daisy Maria Rizatto. Nursing professional practice models: an integrative literature review. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2016, vol.serIV, n.10, pp.125-133. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIV16008.

Background: In recent years, many international health organizations have used nursing professional practice models as a tool to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes. Objective: To analyze the literature published during the last decade on nursing professional practice models in hospital environment. Methodology: This is an integrative literature review, according to the PICO methodology (participants, intervention, context and outcomes). Data were collected in December 2015 in CINAHL and MEDLINE databases. Results: Four main themes were identified from the analysis of the 17 articles included in this study: nursing professional practice models; elements of nursing professional practice models; benefits of nursing professional practice models, and development, implementation and evaluation of nursing professional practice models. Conclusion: The results show that the development and implementation of nursing professional practice models represent significant challenges that, once achieved, will provide the basis for excellence in nursing practice.

Keywords : nursing; nursing models; professional practice; hospitals.

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