Question

-Staff/Staffing Model • Describe the staff and staffing model in clinical practice .

-Ideal patient encounter • Describe an ideal patient encounter from arrival to discharge.

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Specialty Clinics

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. Immunization room:

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Billing counters

Fully furnished Kitchen and licenced dieticians.

Physiotherapy unit.

Answer 1

Staffing model in clinical practice

Staffing model is the guidelines to shedule staff to provide patient care. Because each patient needs healthcare settings are vary. Nurse staff model usually involves nurse to patient ratio.

1. Patient centered care is a modern culture of care which increases the patient satisfaction along with patient care provided. In patient centered care patient is a partner in his own care along with the health care team and patients personal values and preferences are essential components in plan of care.
2. Acuity based nurse staffing assigns staff according to the intensity of the care needed for the patient . The process will based on the clinical judgment of the intensity of care needed , medical diagnosis and severity of symptoms.
3. Primary nursing is care delivery model which maintains continuity of care by assigning same registered nurse from patient arrival to discharge. The registered nurse will be responsible for the care even she is on off duty.
4. Team nursing involves an RN team leader with another RN , LPN , assistant personnel or a combination to provide care to a group of patients. RN is responsible for the care providing by the team.
5. Modular nursing is considered an adaptation of team nursing in which the nursing care team provides the patient care in close physical proximity.
6. A 12 - bed hospital model combines team nursing and modular nursing to assign atleast one RN to 12 patients . Other RNs , LPNs and UAPs are also assigned in the group with a patient care facilitator overseeing the performance of the group and act as a liaison.
7. The total patient care delivery model  in which a RN is responsible for the toatal care provided for all nursing care for group of patients during a shift.
8. Functional nursing divides nursing care into tasks to be completed for a set of patients and assign nurses to those tasks rather than individual patient.