team nursing in acute care

TriciaJ, RN · Jul 11, 2018

They used to have team nursing in the olden days, before primary nursing. However, I was working psych back then which is a whole different thing. So it probably can work, but like anything, you have to have the proper resources to make it work.

Generally, though, any time management rearranges the work load, nurses do more work. When they drop aides and go to an all-RN staff: ratios stay the same and the nurse does more. When they go from an all-RN staff and add aides: you can farm out some of the tasks but get a bigger patient load.

Any rearranging of the work load is never good news for the nurse.

NurseBlaq · Jul 11, 2018

They used to have team nursing in the olden days, before primary nursing. However, I was working psych back then which is a whole different thing. So it probably can work, but like anything, you have to have the proper resources to make it work.
Generally, though, any time management rearranges the work load, nurses do more work. When they drop aides and go to an all-RN staff: ratios stay the same and the nurse does more. When they go from an all-RN staff and add aides: you can farm out some of the tasks but get a bigger patient load.
Any rearranging of the work load is never good news for the nurse.

Realest post in this thread. They never implement changes to help the nurse, it's always about the bottom financial line.