Day September 29, 2026

Assembly-Line Nursing Was Meant to Be Temporary

Historical black-and-white image of nurses and aides performing separate tasks for patients in a crowded hospital ward, illustrating functional or assembly-line nursing.

There’s a nursing model where one nurse passes medications to every patient on the unit and does nothing else. Another nurse does treatments. An aide does baths and vital signs. Nobody is responsible for a patient. Everybody is responsible for…