title: Primary nursing in an organizational context.
abstract: This article analyzes primary nursing critically and comprehensively. Synthesizing past and present data, the authors suggest a new definition for primary nursing that takes the organizational context into consideration. They illustrate how organizations influence the effectiveness of primary nursing care. The documented information presented here will save nursing administrators hours of reading and analyzing, and will help them make informed decisions about primary nursing.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007325:Institutional Practice; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009739:Nursing Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011321:Primary Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D009626:Terminology as Topic