Practice Development
Nursing Practice Model
It is a model that allows a practice environment that makes the participation of nurses in patient and family care more visible, places them in a position to transform the institution through excellent practice and personal leadership, and encourages them to work according to their capabilities and competencies, thus achieving better clinical outcomes.Characteristics of our practice model
Autonomy
Nursing professionals have the ability to exercise autonomous professional judgment and determine their own actions within the scope of nursing practice, according to their level of competence.
Collaboration
Nursing professionals in their practice settings often implement both collaborative and independent domains simultaneously in order to meet the needs of patients. Collaborative decision making is based on the premises of teamwork.
Professional Development
Nursing professionals have leadership competencies and avenues for professional development. Through continuing education, competency assessment and support provided by managers and organizational leaders, they are motivated to actively participate in a learning environment.
Innovation
Nursing professionals establish and maintain a professional environment that is creative, innovative and always open to new ideas that improve patient care. With the ability to respond to changes in the health care system and, in particular, in the Clinic.
Leadership
Nursing professionals have the ability and potential to influence the patient care system and their professional practice; facilitating its redesign and good nursing care.
Evidence and research
Nursing professionals, in their practice, base their care decisions on a conscious and judicious use of the best current research evidence and, while identifying new issues, collaborate in the development of research.
Accountability
Nursing professionals have the commitment to assume with autonomy the responsibilities that derive from the nursing discipline and to offer patients/families independent and collaborative care that protects, promotes and optimizes their health; facilitates their healing and helps them to recover their well-being, alleviate their suffering and/or die in peace.
Decision making
Nursing professionals, within the framework of their responsibilities, make clinical decisions that involve a process of gathering, analyzing and synthesizing information. The result of this process is a clinical judgment.
Teamwork
Nurses, as part of an interdisciplinary team, provide and/or exchange relevant clinical information with other health professionals. In addition, they make collaborative and interdependent decisions with them.Excellence in patient care
The Clinic has always shown a commitment to the development of good nursing practice and a concern for developing nursing excellence.
Nursing focuses its caregiving role on caring and supporting the patient.
Recognition of the value of compassionate care implies exercising our work with excellence and a spirit of service.
Magnet Accreditation
Clínica Universidad de Navarra opts for Magnet accreditation and begins the journey to become a Magnet Hospital.
In 2024 the Clínica Universidad de Navarra sent the documentation to apply for Magnet accreditation. This will make CUN the first healthcare institution in Spain to apply for accreditation and, if awarded, the first center to receive this international recognition.
This distinction, awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to healthcare institutions, recognizes the excellence offered by nurses in their clinical practice in the care of patients and their families.
This favors the satisfaction of professionals, the improvement of patient care and experience, the continuous training and development of nursing based on the latest evidence and the creation of a space where nurses collaborate with different professionals committed to quality care for patients and their families.
Institutions with Magnet hospital status demonstrate an optimal environment for the development of nursing talent, a prestige that extends to all professionals in the organization and to the institution itself.
Magnet gives a nursing practice framework that guides us to excellence through evidence:
- For nurses, it involves further training and development in their clinical practice, which leads to a more autonomous exercise of their practice.
- For the patient, it means receiving the best possible care, performed by a nurse who receives all the institutional support to develop his or her full potential.
- Generates opportunities for improvement in the organization.
- Promotes teamwork and interprofessional dialogue to ensure patient-centered collaborative practice.
