Learning Objective #1: Understand the main components of the Sustained Partnership Model of NP care and its relationship to faculty practice

Learning Objective #2: Articulate the importance of integrating a model of care into faculty practice, education and research

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The Sustained Partnership Model (SPM) was collaboratively developed by Michigan State University (MSU) College of Nursing (CON) faculty to serve as a working foundation for advanced practice nursing (APN) patient care. This model is serving to identify unique holistic components of the APN model of care, facilitating teaching of nurse practitioner students across different faculty practices, providing a conceptual framework between faculty practices and ensuring common usage of concepts that are utilized in the education of nurse practitioner students. The model is also being used to facilitate research and guide a variety of quality improvement activities in faculty practice.

The MSU CON faculty practice encompasses a broad variety of settings. Included is a Nurse Managed Center where faculty and staff NP's see a population of Veterans and underserved individuals, an urban inner city family practice site with an NP/physician team, a geriatric practice located within a Continuing Care Retirement Community in a rural, underserved area and an international site in the Ukraine.

The focus of the presentation will be on exploring how the SPM has been implemented in the diverse faculty practice sites. Discussion will include how individual practice faculties have utilized components of the model successfully, as well as the challenges they have faced for full implementation. A connection between faculty utilization of the model and translation to the nurse practitioner student will be described. Additionally, a link will be presented between the utilization of a common model of practice to sustainability of faculty practice within a major research-intensive university. Recommendations on how to integrate the SPM into practice, teaching and research within other settings will be described.