A patient-centered framework for restructuring care.
Restructuring to meet patient care needs is the greatest challenge facing nursing and hospitals today. As leaders of the largest clinical discipline, nurse executives have a professional responsibility to assist hospitals to design delivery systems that will ensure high-quality care and financial viability. The author describes how one nursing division formulated its values and beliefs into a framework for practice and operationalized the framework into a patient-centered care delivery system.
District of Columbia General Hospital, Washington, DC.
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D004219:District of Columbia; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration