Patient-centered care : impacting quality with the acuity adaptable model / Angelo Venditti

Administrators face the challenge of developing and evaluating innovative models of care that decrease cost, improve quality, and change the way nurses practice to gain efficiencies. The acuity adaptable model (AAM), or universal bed concept, is proposed as one innovative model of care delivery. In the AAM, patients are admitted to a suite-style room for their entire hospital stay. This study was created to determine if there's a difference between quality outcomes, specifically nurse-sensitive indicators, or length of stay (LOS) for patients admitted postcardiac surgery to an AAM unit versus postcardiac surgery admission to a traditional, segregated cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). Based on the data in this study, the quality of rare was at least equal to the traditional model of care, and, in fact, LOS was much improved versus postcardlac surgery admission to a traditional, segregated CICU. Additional analysis of the AAM should be completed to determine the generalizability of these findings across diverse patient populations.

Nursing