Delegation
A person, other than a RN or LPN that some nursing tasks can be delegated to
What is a UAP?
Move the cane forward 6-10 inches before moving the weaker leg, use on the unaffected side
What is the proper way to walk with a cane?
Used by nurses to make decisions regarding standards of care
What are nurse practice acts?
Many nursing errors that cause harm to patients are caused by
What are medication errors?
A leadership style that allows great flexibility and limited direction is known as
What is lais-sez-faire?
This can not be delegated to UAPs
What is the nursing process to include decision making?
A barrier for patient safety is most commonly related to this
What is communication?
Professional judgement for nursing decisions is also known as
What is critical thinking or clinical judgement or problem solving?
The person responsible for ensuring the quality of a delegated task is
What is the Registered Nurse?
A leadership style where members of the team take part in making decisions is known as
What is a democratic leadership style?
Patient with a changing critical condition
What client can't be delegated?
Advance the walker 24 inches.
What is the wrong distance to lead with for a walker?
Clinical nursing practice decisions are based upon
What are standards of care/evidence based practice?
Common areas of potential nursing liability include
What are medication errors, patient falls and failure to enact physician orders?
A leadership style that dictates what should be done with little input from employees is known as
What is autocratic or authoritarian?
Can meet the needs of clients, can give PO and IM medications, can care for chronic and stable patients
What is an LVN (LPN)?
Health systems with a higher percentage of these people have better outcomes
What are BSN prepared nurses?
A document that a competent client makes to express their wishes on future healthcare desires
What is an advance health care directive?
A variance or an incident outside of the usual norms that requires a report to be initiated
What is a variance or irregular occurance?
This is considered a type of discipline where there are levels to the discipline
What is progressive discipline?
Can assist the client with ADL's turn every 2 hours, and assist with eating on stable clients
What can a UAP or CNA do?
Measles, Tuberculosis and Varicella
What are the airborne transmission conditions?
A source for review of ethical dilemmas in nursing
What is the American Nurse's Association Code of Ethics?
Also, consider hospital ethics review boards
This arises when there are two or more opposing views, feelings, or expectations
What is conflict?
A person is known as this when he or she influences others and conveys a team spirit
What is a leader?