An ethnographic assessment of an academic nursing center

Establishment of nursing centers is one of the most important and most exciting trends in the profession of nursing. Nurse practitioners have been taking the lead in the management and staffing of nursing centers. The purpose of this study was to provide a description and an analysis of an academic nursing center. Through a series of observations and interviews, an interdisciplinary team investigated the history and organizational development of the center; the everyday delivery of services; staffing; and participants' assessment of the efficiency and quality of its services and recommendations for improving the services provided in the examined nursing center.