Primary Nursing

The Primary Nursing care system is fundamentally based on the personal assignment of a caregiver to one or more patients. The responsibility and accountability for the care of their patients from admission to discharge is delegated to the individual caregiver. This way, patients have a reliable point of contact, and caregivers regain control over their own actions. Marie Manthey, who originally developed and implemented this nursing concept on a ward, demonstrates in this book how a variety of problems that have accompanied professional nursing in recent decades can be solved with the help of Primary Nursing. These problems include, among others, the low status of the nursing profession, its economic constraints, and its lack of power and influence in relation to care-related decisions. Starting from the historical emergence of modern nursing within a bureaucratized hospital system, Marie Manthey arrives at a redefinition of what constitutes humane and professional care. Manthey describes the conditions under which Primary Nursing can be introduced, the obstacles that repeatedly hinder this introduction, and how to overcome these obstacles. The 4th edition has been revised and updated regarding current developments in the field of the Primary Nursing care system.