title: Models of care choices in today's nursing workplace: where does team nursing sit?
abstract: This paper provides an overview of the developmental history of models of care (MOC) in nursing since Florence Nightingale introduced nurse training programs in a drive to make nursing a discipline-based career option. The four principal choices of models of nursing care delivery (primary nursing, individual patient allocation, team nursing and functional nursing) are outlined and discussed, and recent MOC literature reviewed. The paper suggests that, given the ways work is being rapidly reconfigured in healthcare services and the pressures on the nursing workforce projected into the future, team nursing seems to offer the best solutions.
authors.affiliation: School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia.
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fairbrother
authors.affiliation: Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, 88 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. Email.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chiarella
authors.affiliation: Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. Email.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Braithwaite
mesh_terms: D006676:History of Nursing; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000639:trends*; D010348:Patient Care Team