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Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Organizing
Manager
Manager
Burn
CCU
Unit
Advantages:
♠ High client satisfaction can be achieved (save
time).
♠ High coordination across function occurs
(employee collaborate with other unit
functions to meet unit goals and reduce
conflict).
Disadvantages:
♠ Each service line is independent has its own
nursing staff and compete with other
service lines.
Patient Care
The registered nurse plans,
organizes, and performs all care
Advantages:
♠ Based on holistic philosophy of nursing.
♠ The nurse is fully responsible about the patient and gives
him full accountability.
♠ Direct contact with the patient.
♠ Continuity of patient's care.
♠ Good nurse-patient relationship.
♠ Allow the nurse to coordinate patient's care (authority).
Disadvantages:
♠ Lack of educational development.
♠ Very expensive.
Advantages:
♠ Based on task-oriented philosophy of nursing.
♠ Not expensive in comparison with case method.
♠ Efficient because tasks are completed in reasonable
amount of time.
♠ Staffs do only what they are able to do and trained to
do.
♠ Helpful in critical shortage of nurses / emergency.
Disadvantages:
♠ Fragmented nursing care.
♠ Patients do not know their nurses.
♠ Nurses do not have enough time to communicate with
patients.
♠ There is a little time for psychological care.
♠ Deals with patients in a mechanistic way rather than
humanistic.
♠ Poor job satisfaction.
♠ Reflects bureaucracy and centralized organ.
Advantages:
♠ High job satisfaction.
♠ Nurses have enough time to communicate.
♠ Patients know their nurses.
Disadvantages:
♠ Required efficient team leader skills.
♠ Rotation of team leader is frustrating.
Patient
Associate nurse carry out the plan of care when the primary
nurse is not available.
Advantages :
♠ Provide satisfaction for nurses and patients.
♠ Nurses get self esteem for providing complete nursing care.
♠ Good communication between patients and nurses.
♠ Increase accountability and facilitate continuity of care.
♠ Efficient method which decrease the number of people in the chain
of commands (reduce error).
♠ Patient know their nurses and times they are available.
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E. Primary Method……..
Disadvantages :
♠ Primary nurse limits a nurses talents to her
own patients, other patients can't get benefit.
♠ More professional staff and fewer non-
professional staff are required for successful
implementation.
♠ Complicates doctors rounds because no
single nurse in the unit knows all the
patients.