Total Patient Care
In most hospital and inpatient settings, during an 8- or 12-hour shift, the patient or group of patients receives consistent care from how many nurses?
One
When did functional nursing become popular?
In the 1940s during World War II, when there was a war-related shortage of nurses
Which nursing care model is the RN usually appointed the position of group leader?
Team nursing
What era did this model of nursing start?
1960s
The process of coordinating health care by planning, facilitating, and evaluating interventions across levels of care to achieve cost containment and quality outcomes
Case management
What era was the total patient care model of care used?
Era of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
A registered nurse responsible for delegating and coordinating patient care and staff on a specific unit.
Charge nurse
The proportion of regulated nurses and UCPs in a specific setting
Staff mix
A model for organizing patient care delivery in which one nurse functions autonomously as the patient's primary nurse throughout the hospital stay
When did this model first begin?
In the 1920s, when it was used by social workers and public health nurses working in community-based settings to identify and obtain resources for those most in need
Today, what setting in healthcare is the total patient care model most often used?
Critical care settings - Acute medical settings
Which type of situations does the functional model of nursing care work well?
Emergency and disaster situations
A small group of regulated and unregulated personnel, with a team leader, responsible for providing patient care to a group of patients.
Team nursing
The registered nurse who is responsible for planning and delivering care to a consistent group of patients. Typically works with a team to deliver care
Primary nurse
In which nursing care delivery model are clinicians held accountable for some standard of cost-effectiveness and quality of care?
Case management
A model of nursing care delivery in which one nurse provides total care for a patient during an entire work period
Case method
The result of patient goals that are achieved through a combination of medical and nursing interventions with patient participation.
What are the advantages of this model? (Multiple answers)
- improved patient satisfaction
- decision making by staff nurses
- cost effective
- maximized team collaboration
This model is an adaption of what other nursing model?
Total patient care
Overall goal is to manage “individuals at their maximum level of comfort, functionality, and independence while at the lowest and most appropriate level of intensity of service”
Case management model
The staff nurse who is assigned to total patient care must complete: (Multiple answers)
- Assessment
- Teaching the patient and family
- Less complex functions f care such as personal hygiene.
What is a major disadvantage of functional nursing?
Fragmentation of care
What is the hallmark of team nursing?
"Care through others"
Who developed this model of care
Marie Manthey in 1968, as a model for organizing patient-care delivery
This model has been applied successfully in all health care settings including: (multiple answers)
- Acute care
- Sub acute care
- Ambulatory settings
- LTC facilities