ABSTRACT
Caregiving organization members typically belong to particular departments or units, each dedicated to some aspect of the organization’s primary task. The groupings ensure the integrity of sub-tasks: hospitals use self-contained units to safeguard patients; schools maintain academic departments to reinforce the learning of specific disciplines; treatment centers operate through departments that enable the work and training of staff members. Organization members may also belong to functional areas or professional disciplines. Hospitals, for example, contain nurses, physicians, technicians, and administrators, each of whom has a particular perspective and task based on training and roles. Each unit, department, function or profession is pointed toward some aspect of the careseekers’ needs. Physicians diagnose, medicate, operate on, and develop protocols for patients, while nurses attend to them, technicians transport them, and administrators create systems that attract and serve them more capably.
