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Charge Nurses relating to Functional Model, Team Nursing Model, and Delegation It seemed like a normal day coming into work, it was a Tuesday. 6:45 a.m. on a Medical Surgical Floor, the night shift was eager to give report so they could go home, and all the day shift nurses were drinking their coffee getting ready for the 12 hour shift ahead of them. My name is Staci Deland, I am a Registered Nurse on a Pediatric Medical Surgical Floor. This day I am talking about is about to become much busier than it normally does. After rounding, one of my patient that was post-op day five from a laparoscopic cholecystectomy had changed since Monday. She had a history of emphysema and also was on 14L of oxygen via simple mask and her saturations were …show more content…

This story is an example of how hectic things can get on our floor and how our charge nurse is made to be available to help the floor nurses and delegate care. There have been upsides and downsides to the charge nurse role. I would like to focus on the charge nurses relating to functional model, team nursing model, and delegating. Functional Model Functional Model, also referred to as the “task method” of nursing, is a method of providing patient care by which each licensed and unlicensed staff member performs specific tasks for a large group of patients (Yoder-wise, 253). Functional nursing evolved during the depression in 1940s to the 1960s, when RNs went from being individual workers to employees for the purposes of employment. During World War II, there was a nursing shortage, and nurses left their homes to care for the soldiers (Shirey, 2008). The hospitals were short nurse and to accommodate this shortage, they increased their use of extra personnel. For efficiency, nursing skills were divided into tasks, a model that proved very efficient when staffing was low. The main purpose was for nurses to have individual assigned to tasks, and not to patients. RNs are responsible for initial admission assessments of all patients, starting blood transfusions, placing nasogastric tubes, and filing care plans in patient charts. LPNs on the floor may collect data that can be used in the assessment, perform skills, and give all

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