Nursing NUR402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Job Satisfaction
26 Apr 2016
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Effective management makes the organization function, and the nursing manager has a responsibility of nursing care delivery systems that demonstrate ways of organizing nursing"s work. Within these systems there are advantages and disadvantages for quality of care, use of resources, and staff growth. The new method, traced back to florence nightingale, began in the early days of the nursing profession and was the convenient and appropriate way to manage care. Individuals are assigned to give total care to each patient, including the necessary medicine and treatments. The nurses report to their immediate superior, who is the head nurse. The disadvantages of this system are that all personnel might not have been qualified to deliver all aspects of care, and depending on the structure, too many people were reporting to the head nurse (overextended span of control). The functional method is the next step to deal with different levels of caregivers.
