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Assembly-Line Nursing Was Meant to Be Temporary
There's a nursing model where one nurse passes medications to every patient on the unit and does nothing else. Another nurse does treatments. An aide does baths and vital signs. Nobody is responsible for a patient. Everybody is responsible for a task. Nursing textbooks call it assembly line nursing. The formal name is functional nursing. But the assembly-line description is not something critics invented. In their 2004 review of nursing care delivery models, Tiedeman and […]
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