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Nursing Services in Acute Care Facilities

THE MOST EFFICIENT CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING NURSING SERVICES IN ACUTE

Both the quality and efficiency of care delivered in acute care facilities are linked directly to nursing services. Thus, nursing services, along with all other services provided through acute care facilities, must be evaluated to assure that nursing makes an optimal contribution to the attainment of institutional objectives. The quality assurance has been suggested as the preferred vehicle for both making such an evaluation and attaining the dual goal of quality of care and efficiency in nursing services in acute care facilities.

As a resolution to the problem of providing quality assurance for nursing services in acute care facilities, the creation of cross functional care teams was proposed. To foster strong leadership in selfmanaged work teams, acute care facility administrators must relinquish control over details, concrete problems, and daytoday activities. Administration will then devote its energies to broader responsibilities, such as planning, and providing direction and support for selfmanaging work teams. Within such an organizational environment, administration retains authority over policy, while the selfmanaging work teams assume operational authority within a framework of goals established by administration.

Teambuilding is especially appropriate for acute care facilities in the pursuit of quality. Through the implementation of the crossfunctional work team concept, the autonomy of nurses may be expected to be strengthened.

THE MOST EFFICIENT CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING NURSING SERVICES IN ACUTE

Dynamic change characterizes the American health care delivery environment in the 1990s. Within such an environment, institutional acute care providers must develop and implement new and effective strategies if they are to remain viable entities.

The changes in the health care delivery environment result fro...

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