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Assembly-Line Nursing Was Meant to Be Temporary

There's a nursing model where one nurse passes medications to every patient on the unit and does nothing else. In their 2004 review of nursing care delivery models, Tiedeman and […] The post Assembly-Line Nursing Was Meant to Be Temporary by Mark Graban appeared first at Lean Blog by Mark Graban.

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There's a nursing model where one nurse passes medications to every patient on the unit and does nothing else.

In their 2004 review of nursing care delivery models, Tiedeman and […] The post Assembly-Line Nursing Was Meant to Be Temporary by Mark Graban appeared first at Lean Blog by Mark Graban.

The assembly-line description is not something critics invented.

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There's a nursing model where one nurse passes medications to every patient on the unit and does nothing else. In their 2004 review of nursing care delivery models, Tiedeman and […] The post Assembly-Line Nursing Was Meant to Be Temporary by Mark Graban appeared first at Lean Blog by Mark Graban. Nursing textbooks call it assembly line nursing.

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Nursing textbooks call it assembly line nursing. The assembly-line description is not something critics invented.

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