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N Shirkman

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Meeting the challenge of unscheduled outpatient visits.

Cancer patients receive multimodal therapy and treatments on an ongoing basis in free-standing cancer centers, infusion centers, and oncology offices and at home. To serve those who require unscheduled evaluation for treatment effects, one hospital developed a program to receive those visits on an inpatient cancer unit.

Appointments and Schedules↗

A professional practice model: two key components.

Professional practice models provide decentralized approaches to nursing practice. The components of such a model should include a primary nursing delivery system, decentralized decision making, salary compensation, self-scheduling and quality circles. This article describes two of the key components of the model--salaried compensation and self-scheduling--on a unit in one agency.

Decision Making, Organizational↗