The nurses on your unit want to change the patient care delivery model from functional nursing to primary care nursing. They are concerned about the disadvantages of functional nursing, which include which of the following? Select all that apply
a. Patients feel disjointed.
b. Care can be delivered to a large number of patients.
c. LPNs are forced to work outside their scope of practice.
d. Patients become the sum of the tasks rather than an integrated whole.
e. Other types of health care workers are used when there is a shortage of RNs.
f. Technical, rather than professional, nursing care often results.
A, D, F
The disadvantages of functional nursing include patients feeling disjointed; patients becoming the sum
of the tasks rather than an integrated whole; and technical, rather than professional, nursing care
resulting. The advantages of functional nursing are that care can be delivered to a large number of
patients, and other types of health care workers are used when there is a shortage of RNs. LPNs should
never be forced to work outside their scope of practice no mater which care delivery system is used.
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