title: Empowering part-time nurses in the treatment of depressed inpatients.
abstract: 1. With the consistent number of part-time nurses in the workforce, hospitals would benefit by more actively integrating them into professional nursing practice. 2. Empowering part-time nurses by affording them the opportunity to provide primary care has the potential to effectively use part-time personnel, decrease the workload for full-time staff, offer more flexibility in scheduling, and result in savings for hospitals in terms of nursing recruitment and retention. 3. This program has successfully developed and implemented a model of primary nursing that places three part-time nurses on a team capable of handling two to three primary patients. The success of this model has been attributed to excellent communication, trust in one another's professional skills, and nursing expertise.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0294.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Owen
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009746:Nursing, Team; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011209:Power, Psychological