What criteria would you use to assess the conceptual model you choose to guide your nursing department's practice? Whether you are assessing a model for your own use or critiquing someone else's, there are several considerations relating to the model's utility that should be kept in mind. To avoid choices based primarily on intuition or what “seems right,” the author presents a framework for assessing the adequacy, completeness, and appropriateness of nursing models before their adoption for use in practice.