Synergy: A Framework for Leadership Development and Transformation

Given the current demands of the health care environment, the need for nurses minimally competent in clinical judgment, caring practice, advocacy and moral agency, collaboration, responsiveness to diversity, systems thinking, inquiry, and facilitation of learning is critical in light of ever-increasing contextual complexity and variability of patient needs. The Synergy Model provides an exemplary and relevant framework for clinical practice with the ultimate aim of improving patient outcomes. Tenets of accountability and professionalism are central to the model and, in its entirety, it provides a practical and useful approach for thinking about and redesigning educational products and processes in clinical settings.