Primary care in the emergency room: a collaborative model.
Emergency rooms have become primary care centers for a large portion of the population. Unfortunately, most are neither designed nor appropriately staffed to deliver first-line, continuous, comprehensive, family-oriented, and self-actualizing care. This paper describes a nurse-managed collaborative primary care practice model that has been functioning for 8 years in an inner city emergency department.
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D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*