Synergy model in clinical teaching of critical care among MSc students of nursing and patients with cardiovascular diseases

BACKGROUND: One of the ways to modify education is to design clinical education courses based on advanced learning models with systemic collaboration of programmed spheres of practice variables. Nurses andacademic members in nursing and medical schools play a key role in professional and personal promotion ofnursing students. This study adopted synergy model to determine and assess patients’ and nurses’characteristics.METHODS: This is an action research. Synergy model was performed for ۱۲ MSc nursing students (term twoin CCU and Cardiac surgery ICU) selected by convenient sampling. The study was carried out in CCU ofNour and Cardiac surgery ICU and Cardiac surgery ward of Shahid Chamran hospitals of IsfahanUniversity of Medical Sciences in the second semesters of ۲۰۰۸-۲۰۰۹ and ۲۰۰۹-۲۰۱۰. The data werecollected by patients’ nurses’ characteristics questionnaire and levelizing them using synergy model withconfirmed validity and reliability. The judgement in this study was based on mean score.RESULTS: Mean score of levelizing of nursing students’ characteritstics made by instructors and nursesshowed that mean score in students’ function scale in clinical judgement was ۳ (average), in advocacy andmoral agcncy ۱ (the lowest), in caring practices ۳(average) in interdisciplinary collaboration ۳, insystematic thinking ۳ (average), in response to diversity ۱ (the lowest), in facilitation of learning ۳ (average)and in clinical inquiry ۱ (the lowest)respectively.CONCLUSION: The findings of this study showed the need to promote mutual cooperation between nursing andmedical schools and hospitals in education of nursing students and to promote care for clients and theirfamilies in a systematic planning framework. Synergy model is a functional approach for planned educationand its development so that the students can aquire the ability to response to patients’ and their families’needs in form of a learning system.Keywords: Clinical education, Nursing students, Synergy model, characteristics, Practice Learning Team (PLT)