Team nursing
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Team nursing is an historical method of nursing practice which utilized the "economy of scale" philosophy by having one nurse or nursing assistant do one specialized function for all the inpatients within a nursing unit of a hospital. For example, one nurse may administer and record all the medications, while another checks and records the vital signs of those same inpatients.
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=team nursing also signifies "helping each other" by the nurse and the patient. team nursing is a team of nurses caring for a group of patients NOT task allocation as described above!
The description above implies Functional Nursing, not Team Nursing. Teams as used in nursing are typically a group of nurses caring for a group of patients who are divided among the nurses. They work cooperatively and share group responsibility for the caseload.
