Question

Imagine your family member is a patient at a hospital that uses the functional model of patient care delivery. She just had her knee replaced, and when you ask the nursing assistant for something for pain, she says, “I’ll tell the medication nurse.” The medication nurse comes to the room and says that your mother’s medication is to be administered intravenously, and the IV nurse will need to administer it. The IV nurse is busy starting an IV on another patient and cannot give your mother the medication for at least 10 minutes. This whole communication process has taken 40 minutes, and your mother is still in pain.

Is the functional method effective of patient care in this situation?

How effective do you think communication among staff is when a patient has a problem?

What could be done to improve this situation?

Answer 1

Here communication is not proper and direct , the patient is suffering in pain but everybody is expressing their reasons for treatment of the patient who was in pain.

If this the communication that if followed may create critical suitations for the patients who are in severe conditions and need emergency.

So as it is difficult nowadays to use case method that is alloting one nurse to one patient is oldest method too.

Critical care setting where one nurse provides total care to one to two critical patients.Apart from these Hiring and management of appropriate staff to provide total care in a cost-effective manner.