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Types of Nursing Care
Types of Nursing Care
nurse, treatment nurse, and bedside nurse are all typically are slighted. Care tends to be fragment-
products of this system. The functional method ed and depersonalized. RNs may keep busy with
implements classic scientific management prin- managerial and nonnursing duties, and nurses’
ciples, which emphasize efficiency, division of aides deliver the majority of patient care.
labor, and rigid controls. It is an efficient system Although superficially cost efficient because it
that is the least costly because it requires few uses the smallest number of staff, the functional
RNs. Procedural descriptions are used to define assignment method does not encourage patient
the standard of care, and psychological needs and staff satisfaction. Research indicates that