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9087100

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-4-10
pubmed:abstractText
In this era of healthcare reform, performing care using resources in an efficient manner is essential. "Nursing Futures," a process used by a 24-bed general rehabilitation unit in a 530-bed facility, helped the unit to identify key components of care, determine opportunities for improvement, and create a new system for the delivery of care that maximized resources and improved customer satisfaction. A Nursing Futures Committee, composed of nursing staff from all levels and from all shifts, used a continuous quality improvement process to focus on the problems in care delivery and developed ways to solve these problems using the time and talents of registered nurses in the most effective way. The committee also identified expectations of staff by various customer groups; analyzed the delivery system and defined its shortcomings; developed the ideal patient care unit within financial and institutional constraints; and executed the plan, considering cost and evaluation of patient and staff satisfaction before and after the system was implemented. The new system provided consistency in patient care assignments by reorganizing the unit into two nursing teams and by creating a new nursing position, the patient care manager.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0278-4807
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
307-10
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Nursing futures: a process to promote change in the delivery of care.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't