Chapter 6: Delegation and Supervision
The process of directing, monitoring, and evaluating the performance of tasks by another team member
What is supervision?
What is the foundational level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, encompassing essentials like food, water, and shelter?
What are physiological needs?
Basic critical thinking, complex critical thinking, and commitment.
What are the levels of critical thinking?
The use of precise practices to reduce the number, growth, and spread of micro-organism
What is Medical Asepsis?
Education, training, experience, knowledge and skill to perform the task, level of critical thinking the task requires, demonstration of competence.
What are some delegatee factors?
What is the final phase of the nursing process, where nurses assess the patient's response to interventions and the achievement of goals?
What is the evaluation phase?
Confidence, independence, fairness, responsibility, creativity, perserverance, curioisity are examples of
What are some attitudes of critical thinkers?
This essential step must be taken upon a patient's discharge to monitor their progress and ensure continuity of care after leaving the facility."
What is establishing a follow-up plan with the patient?
To maintain asepsis, healthcare workers must perform this practice thoroughly and regularly, including before and after patient contact.
What is hand hygiene?
Individuals who had training to function in an assistive role to licensed nurses in providing care
What is an unlicensed personnel?
In the nursing process, what phase focuses on carrying out the planned interventions and providing patient care?
What is the implementation phase?
Knowledge, experience, competence, attitudes, standards
What are the components of critical thinking?
When should discharge planning ideally start for every client admitted to a healthcare facility?
What is "on admission"?
The use of precise practice to eliminate all micro-organism from an object or area and prevent contamination
What is Surgical Asepsis?
This is required in order for RNs to complete higher-level tasks that only RN can perform
Why should RNs delegate tasks?
Process in which provides framework throughout which nurses can apply knowledge, judgment, and skills, as well as established standards on nursing practice to the formulation of a plan of nursing
What is the nursing process?
What is fairness?
What important consideration should be taken into account when providing written discharge instructions to a client?
What is "the instructions should be written in the client's language"
The 3 essential components of handwashing
What are soap, running water, and friction?
Right task, right circumstances, right person, right direction and communication, and right supervision and evaluation.
What are the 5 rights of delegation?
This term refers to information in nursing that includes what others tell the nurse, what the client has told them, and data collected from other sources.
What is "secondary sources of information"?
Some tactics that that allow the nurse to recognize connections and patterns among data and outcomes to improve their critical thinking and clinical reasoning ability?
What is concept mapping and reflective journaling?
Identify the reasons why a client might need to be transferred or discharged from a healthcare facility.
What are "a change in the client's level of care due to health improvement," "the need for care in a different setting," and "the facility's inability to provide the required type of care"?
The primary goal of both surgical and medical asepsis is to prevent this from happening in healthcare settings.
What is healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) or nosocomial infections?