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By Ramonita Jimenez, VP and CNO, and Claudia Douglas, Nursing Management Consultant, Hackensack Meridian Health
The healthcare landscape is currently navigating a period of profound transformation. For decades, nursing care delivery models (CDMs) have served as the fundamental framework for planning, assessing, and delivering care. Yet these models—ranging from functional and team nursing to the primary nursing model popularized in the 1970s —were historically developed in response to economic and political shifts rather than to rigorous empirical validation. Today, as nursing leadership faces an unprecedented global shortage and a high-velocity digital era, the traditional “four walls” of the hospital are no longer…