Nursing
the system November 5, 2017 -- There is a new role for nurses: the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL). Well, relatively new; certification for this job role began only ten years ago. It comes with some new vocabulary. For example, a microsystem is a hospital unit. Here are a couple of fascinating Medscape articles by Linda Borns: The Clinical Nurse Leader Role, and A Day in the Life of a Clinical Nurse Leader. Ms Borns' microsystem is a 24-bed medical telemetry/oncology unit. Her work there demonstrably improves outcomes and reduces costs. Wikipedia defines the CNL as a healthcare systems specialist. The idea of applying systems approaches to healthcare delivery is a good one, and timely. |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798