The idea is that we divide the ward—the
patients if you like—and the nurses into three different teams, which we call primary 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 assistant, and you're all in one team together.
The idea is that you would hopefully work as a team on 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 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.