What is RBC?
Also known as Primary Nursing, Relationship Based Care focuses on the nurse-patient relationship. It strengthens accountability for care and facilitates patient and family involvement in the planning of care. The goal is to create a therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and individual patient and his or her family. The relationship is initiated by the nurse and remains for the length of the patient’s stay. However, the primary nurse does not provide all of the care. Instead, she or he identifies the patient’s unique health needs and priorities while establishing an individualized plan of care which is communicated to other team members. York Hospital builds infrastructure to support RBC Last year, more than 400 York Hospital nurses spent a day with a consultant from Creative Health Care Management, who spoke about the core guiding principles of Relationship Based Care. Since that time, nurses in four “Wave 1 Units” along with some physicians have participated in education
