Primary Nursing: Its Implementation and Six month Outcome

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

4 p.

Publication Date

5-1978

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

Source Publication

Journal of Nursing Administration

Source ISSN

0002-0443

Abstract

Implementation of primary nursing on a 34-bed medical/surgical unit is described. The role of the head nurse in establishing communication among care givers is crucial to the success of primary nursing on her unit. Patient evaluation of primary nursing care versus team nursing care by means of questionnaires was begun six months after inception demonstrated patients to be significantly more positive in their recall of primary nursing.

Comments

Journal of Nursing Administration, Vol. 8, No. 5 (May 1978): 29-32. Permalink.

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