Nursing Teams

The idea is that we divide the ward the patients if you like and the nurses into three different teams, which we call [primary:prime] nursing teams. And in those teams we then have the primary nurse which is myself, associate nurses which generally tend to be D grade nurses, and health care [assistants:officials] , and you're all in one team together. The idea is that you would hopefully work as a team in co-ordinating the care for the patients who come in under your care as in the red team. In our teams we have eight patients each. The idea would be that I would normally [prescribe:advertise] the care or plan the care, for those patients. In reality, it doesn't always work like that and besides which the associate nurses that are in the teams have those skills anyway from their [training:upgrading] .