Scope of Practice
What is the type of nurse who can delegate to other RN's, LPN's and CNA's?
What is a "registered nurse?"
The combination of time assessment, goal setting, planning, and performance monitoring.
What is time management?
What is it called when someone with lower rank delegates to someone with higher rank.
What is reverse delegation?
The topics we discussed today during Professional Development.
What is time management, prioritization, and delegation?
What must the RN do before delegating patient tasks to non-RN personnel?
What is assessing the patient?
The ability to see what tasks are more important at each moment and give those tasks more attention, energy, and time.
What is prioritization?
The three fundamental managerial concepts of successful delegation (they must be understood by both the delegator and the delegate).
What is accountability, responsibility, and authority?
The website that has information about the scope of practice for registered nurses and where I can renew my nursing license.
The nurse is caring for a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Name the intervention for airway management that could be delegated to a nursing assistant.
A. Assisting the patient to sit up on the side of the bed.
B. Instructing the patient to cough effectively.
C. Teaching the patient to use incentive spirometry.
D. Auscultation of breath sounds every 4 hours
What is answer A?
What is the type of delegation when the delegator delegates a task but does not transfer full authority and takes back responsibility or fails to direct the task?
What is "under delegation?"
Nurses use "what" to delegate, assign, and supervise care and activities.
What is "clinical judgement" or "critical thinking?"
The association with the nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, which are an essential tool for nurses.
What is "American Nurses Association" or "ANA?"
Interruptions from unscheduled guests, phone calls, and the inability to say no.
What are types of time management obstacles?
Assessing, planning the delegation, determining the most appropriate person for the task, delegating responsibility for the activity, establishing controls, and evaluating outcomes.
What are the steps of delegation?
The ability to work with more complex patients, increased job satisfaction and retention, increased patient outcomes.
What is one benefit of delegation to the delegator?
When a staff member accepts a task that is outside their scope of practice.
What is over delegation?
Fatal, fundamental, frequent, fixed, and facility.
What are the five F's for prioritization?
The most forgotten step in delegation.
What is evaluating the outcomes?
When the delegate has the right to refuse to accept delegation.
What is when the UAP is not qualified to complete the task or when the delegator does not clearly define the task and expectations?