title: Professional practice model: strategies for translating models into practice.
abstract: In the current health care climate, economic and cultural conditions have created an optimal opportunity to envision a new direction for nursing as a profession. Nurses find themselves at the formative stages of charting this new direction. The articulation of a professional practice model provides a framework for setting this new direction and thus the achievement of exemplary clinical outcomes. In this article, the authors describe the evolution of the professional practice model at the Massachusetts General Hospital and how the model continues to be evaluated and modified over time by the nurses within the system.
authors.affiliation: Patient Care Services Operations, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Bulfinch 230, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: Jeanette Ives
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ditomassi
mesh_terms: D003406:Credentialing; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D016294:Models, Nursing; D033262:Narration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015399:Nursing Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D018024:Peer Review, Health Care; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical