What is the legal document that provides guidelines about scope of practice-delegating and supervising for RN's and LPN's?
The state Nurse practice act.
100
Assessment & Planning
Communication
Surveillance & Supervision
Evaluation & Feedback
What are the four steps of delegation
100
What is the first step of the delegation process?
What is assessment and planning
100
What is one benefit of delegation to the organization and one benefit to the delegate?
The organization can attain goals more efficiently, and the delegate can learn new skills and abilities.
100
Name the first right of delegation
what is the right task
200
What is the type of nurse who is able to delegate to other RN's, LPN's and CNA's?
Registered nurse
200
What does responsibility mean related to delegation?
The task is within the delegator's scope of practice or something for which they could be responsible
200
What is the most forgotten step of evaluation?
what is feedback and evaluation
200
What is one benefit of delegation?
What is the ability to work with more complex patients, increased job satisfaction and retention, increased patient outcomes.
200
Name one 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?
300
Procedures, actions, and processes that a healthcare provider is permitted to undertake in keeping with the terms of their professional license.
What is the scope of practice
300
Empowering the delegate to accomplish the task by allowing them to act, make decisions and give commands if applicable.
What is transfer of authority?
300
What is second step of delegation?
Communication
300
Primary goal of delegation.
What is patient satisfaction?
300
What must the RN do before delegating patient tasks to non-RN personnel?
What is assess the patient?
400
The type of nurse who is able to supervise other RN's, LPN's and CNA's?
What are RN's
400
Delegating to another individual because the nurses does not want to complete the work.
What is dumping?
400
What is third step of the delegation?
Surveillance and Supervision
400
Failure to use delegation and communication can lead to
an error
burnout
decreased pt satisfaction
400
When does a delegate have the right to refuse to accept delegation?
When the nurse or UAP is not qualified to complete the task.
When the delegator does not clearly define the task and expectations.
When you are a float nurse and it is a speciality area for which you have not been trained.
500
Guidelines to be followed by all states
What are national guidelines
500
What is the difference between delegation and work assignment?
In work or task assignment, there is no transfer of responsibility or authority. The job assignment is related to the job description and the organizational structure
500
What are the five rights of delegation?
Right task
Right circumstance
Right person
Right direction and communication
Right supervision and evaluation
500
Assignment of responsibility or authority to another person to carry out a specific task
What is delegation?
500
What are two key areas for liability related to delegation?
What are:
1. Staffing issues -not enough staff
2. Floating-perform tasks for which they are not competent.
3. Patient abandonment.