Team Nursing

Team nursing is the one strategy that is very effective to the skills improvement of individual nurse where every one has a task to do. The group is divided into three this are the Medication nurse, Head nurse, and bed side nurse. Each Team has their own responsibility guided by ethico-moral of nursing.
Team nursing is not a work of individual but a group, and each of us work together from what we had learned from the previous years in nursing curriculum here in NDMU.
In first the group felt nervous of answering the phone calls of doctors, giving and preparing medication with out the presence of our clinical instructors, carrying out of orders and charting and documentation on patient chat. All of these help us a lot not just in nursing practice but in working as a group and building trust to each other and bringing confidence to my self.
Team nursing reminds me of the joke about the office where four people called Everybody, Nobody, Somebody and Anybody worked - Everybody thought that Somebody would do it ; Anybody could have done it but in the end Nobody did it. Each job and patient needs one nurse who IS responsible for them not four who might be.
Team nursing also means all groups are permanently confined to basic tasks regardless of their level of knowledge and experience which will ensure that the good ones quit and only the timeservers remain. Team nursing does my head in. We need a national database of all wards which practise patient allocation and which practise bloody team nursing so we know which places to go and work and which to avoid like the plague!