When interviewing an applicant for a position, the nurse manager describes the unit's care delivery system as one in which each nursing assistant is cross-trained to perform specific tasks,
and the RNs do all treatment, medication administration, and discharge teaching. The nurse applicant knows this nursing care delivery strategy to be:
a. The case method.
b. Functional nursing.
c. Primary nursing.
d. Nurse case management.
ANS: B
The functional model of nursing is a method of providing patient care by which each licensed and unlicensed staff member performs specific tasks for a large group of patients.
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