OUR TEAM

Our Team

Team nursing is a model in which a group of healthcare professionals, including nurses, care for a group of patients in the acute care or inpatient setting. Acute care, also known as critical care, is when nurses help patients confronting life-threatening issues. This model came about in the 1950s and 1960s in a response to the increasing shortage of nurses due to World War II and nurses leaving hospitals.

The team usually consists of a charge nurse or team leader (also a nurse), more nurses, and patient care technicians or nurse's aides. The charge nurse is responsible for assigning patients to the team members, as well as being knowledgeable about the patients and their plans of care. The nurses who are assigned to the patients delegate tasks to the patient care technicians or nurse's aides within their scope of practice to assist in the care of the patients. Each team is responsible for five to six patients, depending upon the setting and staffing.