Community nursing. Weight-lifters.
As hospital stays get shorter, the pressure on community nursing teams is becoming greater. Gill Frame and Paula O'Donnell describe how one trust devised a scoring system for patient dependency to ensure a fair workload within and between teams.
Frame
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Warrington Community Healthcare Trust, UK.
O'Donnell
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D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010045:Outpatients / Q000145:classification*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*