n. An aspect of managed health care in which nurses attend to a greater number of patients and attempt to speed those patients through the system by performing tasks — such as drawing blood — previously assigned to specialists.
2001
Registered nurses say working conditions are so bad in some hospital medical-surgical units that many RNs are looking for non-nursing jobs or downgrading to part-time status if they can.
Some RNs refer to their work now as "drive-by" or "hit-and-run" nursing, a cutting reference to the lack of time they have to spend providing quality care to patients.
Some RNs refer to their work now as "drive-by" or "hit-and-run" nursing, a cutting reference to the lack of time they have to spend providing quality care to patients.
1998
Delegating jobs such as bathing leads to "hit-and-run" nursing and deprives RNs of an opportunity to detect changes in their patients' conditions.
1998 (earliest)
They worry that managed care, without restraints, leads to what they call hit-and-run nursing and to mistakes, abuses and oversights. …
The accusation of hit-and-run nursing arises from the shift among health maintenance organizations from relying for most care on registered nurses, who have completed two to four years of college, to using what the organizations call team nursing, with nurses supervising workers with less expertise.
The accusation of hit-and-run nursing arises from the shift among health maintenance organizations from relying for most care on registered nurses, who have completed two to four years of college, to using what the organizations call team nursing, with nurses supervising workers with less expertise.
Hit-and-run nursing is also known as drive-by nursing (2000) and accelerated-care nursing (1998).