With the changes in healthcare needs, costs, insurance factors, and the roles of nurses changing,

Question

a. What do you see as the most efficient type of nursing method of care for in-hospital clients? Team nursing, primary nursing, or patient-focused care?
b. Do you think that one type of nursing method is better over another or is it dependent on the type of facility or unit involved? Why?

Answer 1

Students' answers should include the following:
a. Discussion here should include the differences and similarities between team nursing, primary nursing, and patient-focused care. Different types of nursing units such as medical-surgical, observation, intensive care can be used to compare the similarities and differences between each of them and which would fit better in each area of hospital nursing.
b. Students can compare hospital units, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, acute care, long term acute care and ambulatory care with the different methods of care to see if a specific method of care is better in a facility or hospital unit or not.