Redesigning hospital nursing practice: the Professionally Advanced Care Team (ProACT) model, Part 2.
The pressures of the current nursing shortage have created an unparalleled opportunity to restructure hospital nursing practice and care delivery. The potential exists to create new systems which simultaneously advance the goals of the profession and solve the problems of the shortage. Part 1 of this article (JONA, July/August, 1989) examined the similarities and differences among existing models and described the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital ProACT model. Part 2 outlines the process of developing and implementing ProACT, an alternative nursing practice and care delivery model.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D000078329:Workforce