Question: Implementing a New Nursing Care Delivery Model You are serving on an ad hoc committee to examine ways to improve the continuity of patient assignments because your unit is thinking about switching from total patient care to a primary nursing care delivery model. The committee is having a diffi cult time formulating policies because you currently have a great number of nurses who work part-time, 2 days on and 2 days off. In addition, your unit has a census that goes up and down unexpectedly, resulting in nurses being floated out of the unit often. The committee is committed to providing continuity of care in the new patient care delivery system.

ASSIGNMENT: Develop some scheduling and staffing policies that have the probability of increasing continuity of assignment and will not result in a financial liability to the unit. How will these polices be fairly executed, and do they have the potential to cause staff to leave the unit?