Clinical According To The Synergy Model

Skills competency fairs are held annually by most healthcare facilities. They are usually organized and managed by nursing managers and nursing educators. Skills competency fairs allow staff to demonstrate competence with nursing skills that are used daily to provide optimal patient care. The primary goal of these fairs is to ensure competency of the staff, to achieve positive outcomes for patients (Roman, 2015). Before planning the fair, nursing managers and nursing educators come together and collaborate to create a list of necessary competencies that staff need to be competent in at their facility. This list of competencies must meet regulatory and hospital requirements.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the Clinical
In level five of the clinical continuum for collaboration, a CNS should seek opportunities to teach, coach, and mentor and to be taught, coached, and mentored; the CNS should facilitate active involvement and complementary contributions of others in team meetings and discussions regarding patient care and practice issues; and the CNS should also involve diverse resources and departments when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes (McKinley, 2007). During the organization and management of the competency fair, the CNS met all three by teaching nurses parts of the competencies that they missed from the checklist, answering nurses questions about specific competencies, participated in team meetings and discussions about the planning of the competency fair, and involved nursing staff from various departments to teach at each station, even though this competency fair was specifically designed for IPS nurses. By collaborating with nurse leaders and nursing staff, the CNS was able to set goals and come up with a plan to efficiently have the nurses go through each station in a timely
In my research, I learned that most competencies are chosen from the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) and the Joint Commission Core Measures. In this particular facility, some competencies were chosen from the NPSG and others were chosen from specific skills nurses were demonstrating that they required a review on. For example, the month before, with the help of the nurse educator, we discovered that nurses were programming IV medications in basic mode and overriding the pumps safeguards. A need to review how to program IV pumps was found and so, this skill was included in the competency fair. In my research, I also found interesting articles supporting the practice of competency fairs. One article stated that competency fairs are not only for maintaining and advancing nurses knowledge, skills, and analytical abilities, they are also a time for nurses to demonstrate and document their problem-solving and decision-making skills, include best practice in their clinical practice, and support these skills with evidence-based practice that they do make a difference for the patients they care for (Pilcher, Stone, & Reynolds,