Delegation and Supervision
The personnel that vital signs can be delegated to.
Who is an assistive personnel (AP)?
This type of data is gathered during a physical examination by nurses.
What is objective data?
The skills needed to make clinical judgement about problems in nursing practice
What are critical thinking skills?
Sharing information and orienting clients and family to the room and facility upon admission.
This is the primary behavior performed to achieve asepsis and reduce infection.
What is hand hygiene?
The process of transferring a task to another member of the healthcare team.
What is delegation?
The nursing process framework
What is Assess, Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation?
A process in which you cannot move up until the bottom need is met?
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of needs?
This begins on admission for every client.
What is discharge planning?
This is how infections are prevented when performing a dressing change.
What is aseptic technique?
RN's can delegate tasks to these individuals.
Who are other RNs, LVNs, PNs, and APs?
Things to consider during the assassin phase.
What are vital signs, skin assessments, and questions?
What is airway -> breathing -> circulation?
When a client's level of required care changes or another setting is required to provide care.
What are transfer indications?
The amount of border needed on a sterile field.
What is a 1 inch border?
Right task, right circumstance, right person, right communication, and right supervision/evaluation.
What are the five rights of delegation?
This type of goal is used/developed by nurses when working with clients.
What are SMART goals? (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound)
The first priority under the ABCs?
When a facility does not offer the type of care a client now requires or the client no longer needs inpatient care and is ready to return home
What are discharge indications?
The use of precise practices to eliminate all micro-organisms from an object or area and prevent contamination
What is surgical asepsis?
The predictability of outcome, potential for harm, complexity of care, need for innovation, level of interaction with client.
What are the delegation factors?
This guideline or framework is used to set priorities for nurses during the planning stage.
What is Maslow’s hierarchy of basic needs?
The components of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What is physical needs, safety & security, love & belonging, self esteem & self actualization?
This is included in a phone prescription order
What is the client's name, medication name, dosage, time to give, the frequency and route?
The height at which items are dropped onto the sterile field?
What is 6 inches high?