The Importance of Alignment and Congruence
The setting for the Southeast Team is the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) located in Tampa, Florida. This large urban acute care center boasts three-time magnet status and currently in the reaccreditation process for the fourth time. With the outward excellence in healthcare apparent, the organization continues to have lower than anticipated Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey scores from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). When looking at this large picture, alignment of current nursing communication practices is not delivering the values, mission, and philosophy of the TGH Nursing Professional Practice Model (PPM) (Tampa General Hospital, …show more content…
Congruence will be incorporated by using both the corporate and nursing profession practice model to align values, missions, and philosophies throughout the curriculum development process.
An educational needs assessment to identify current knowledge and skills will help drive the development of the most effective learning environments, whether the program is presented as a lecture, online through videos or power point presentation, simulations or a combination of modalities (Guin & Jax, 2015).
Alignment and Congruence Curriculum Strategies
The organization’s mission includes the patient-centered care approach. The proposed curriculum will incorporate the caring, accountability and respect values through effective communication and patient advocacy through interdisciplinary patient-centered care. The main component of the proposed curriculum will deal with understanding the questions from the HCHPS survey. Many nurses are unaware of the significance of the questions and this portion of the new curriculum may include face-to-face (F2F) sessions so questions can be immediately
The setting for the Southeast Team is the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) located in Tampa, Florida. This large urban acute care center boasts three-time magnet status and currently in the reaccreditation process for the fourth time. With the outward excellence in healthcare apparent, the organization continues to have lower than anticipated Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey scores from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). When looking at this large picture, alignment of current nursing communication practices is not delivering the values, mission, and philosophy of the TGH Nursing Professional Practice Model (PPM) (Tampa General Hospital, …show more content…
Congruence will be incorporated by using both the corporate and nursing profession practice model to align values, missions, and philosophies throughout the curriculum development process.
An educational needs assessment to identify current knowledge and skills will help drive the development of the most effective learning environments, whether the program is presented as a lecture, online through videos or power point presentation, simulations or a combination of modalities (Guin & Jax, 2015).
Alignment and Congruence Curriculum Strategies
The organization’s mission includes the patient-centered care approach. The proposed curriculum will incorporate the caring, accountability and respect values through effective communication and patient advocacy through interdisciplinary patient-centered care. The main component of the proposed curriculum will deal with understanding the questions from the HCHPS survey. Many nurses are unaware of the significance of the questions and this portion of the new curriculum may include face-to-face (F2F) sessions so questions can be immediately