Models of care choices in today’s nursing workplace: where does team nursing sit?
Greg Fairbrother A D , Mary Chiarella B and Jeffrey Braithwaite C
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A School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia.
B Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, 88 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. Email: mary.chiarella@sydney.edu.au
C Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. Email: jeffrey.braithwaite@mq.edu.au
D Corresponding author. Email: greg.fairbrother@scu.edu.au
Australian Health Review 39(5) 489-493 https://doi.org/10.1071/AH14091
Submitted: 10 June 2014 Accepted: 23 March 2015 Published: 6 July 2015
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the developmental history of models of care (MOC) in nursing since Florence Nightingale introduced nurse training programs in a drive to make nursing a discipline-based career option. The four principal choices of models of nursing care delivery (primary nursing, individual patient allocation, team nursing and functional nursing) are outlined and discussed, and recent MOC literature reviewed. The paper suggests that, given the ways work is being rapidly reconfigured in healthcare services and the pressures on the nursing workforce projected into the future, team nursing seems to offer the best solutions.
Additional keywords: nursing history, nursing service delivery models, theoretical developments in nursing.
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