A medical institution specializing in providing inpatient care for psychological disorders. deinstitutionalization Transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community-based facilities that emphasize outpatient care.
nurse manager. A nurse responsible for a unit in a hospital, nursing home, or ambulatory care setting. The nurse manager supervises staff performance and patient care.
A nurse administrator may also be called a director of nurses, a nurse executive or a vice president of nursing. In some organizations, the term chief nurse executive is used to denote the nurse administrator. As these titles indicate, the scope of a nurse administratorâs responsibilities is usually very broad. The nurse manager might have responsibilities that seem similar but on a smaller scale.