Middleton E L, Whitney F W
Nursingconnections. 1993 Summer;6(2):29-40.
Emergency rooms have become primary care centers for a large portion of the population. Unfortunately, most are neither designed nor appropriately staffed to deliver first-line, continuous, comprehensive, family-oriented, and self-actualizing care. This paper describes a nurse-managed collaborative primary care practice model that has been functioning for 8 years in an inner city emergency department.
