Scope of Practice
The legal document that provides guidelines about scope of practice-delegating and supervising for RN's?
What is the State Nurse practice act.
The main principle of delegation.
What is delegate tasks for which you are responsible.
The first rule of safe delegation.
What is to know and observe authority parameters.
A benefit of delegation
What is patient care can be delivered more efficiently.
The five rights of delegation.
What are the right task, right circumstances, right person, right direction/communication and right supervision?
The type of nurse who is able to delegate to other RN's, LPN's and CNA's?
What is a Registered nurse?
Transferring a nursing task is called.
What is delegation?
The most forgotten step of delegation.
What is supervision ?
The benefit of delegation to the delegator?
What is the ability to work with more complex patients and increased job satisfaction ?
The four criteria used in making a decision about what and when to delegate a task.
What are predicability of outcomes, scope of practice of delegate, knowledge and skills of delegate, potential for harm and frequency of completing the task?
The type of nurse who can monitor others.
RN's to other RN's, LPN's and CNA's. LPN's to other LPN's and CNA'.
Possessing verifiable knowledge and skill to perform a nursing activity.
What is competence?
The second rule of safe delegation process.
What is perform a thorough assessment?
The primary goal of delegation.
What is safe patient care?
The RN must do this before delegating patient tasks to non-RN personnel?
What is assess the patient?
The type of nurse who is able to supervise other RN's, LPN's and CNA's?
Professional nurses. RN's.
The act of providing direction, evaluation and follow-up.
What is supervision?
The third rule of safe delegation process?
What is delegate nursing task judiciously?
A unlicensed person delegates to a licensed person.
What is reverse delegation?
A delegate may refuse to accept delegation under this circumstance.
What is the person is not qualified to complete the task.
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?
Underdelegation.
Nursing assessment is completed prior to this.
What is Delegation?
The fourth rule of safe delegation.
What is maintaining accountability?
A staff member takes on a task that is outside their scope of practice.
What is overdelegation?
RNs are liable related to delegation in this circumstance
What is assigning unqualified persons to perform nursing task?