Delegating - Correct Answers -Transferring authority and responsibility to another member of the
healthcare team.
-YOU retain accountability!
Supervising - Correct Answers the process of directing, monitoring, and evaluating performance of tasks
by another member of the healthcare team.
The RN is responsible for supervision of client care tasks delegated to... - Correct Answers -Assistive
Personnel (AP)
-Liscnenced Practical Nurses
Certified nursing assistants, certified medicine assistants, dialysis techs, monitor technicians,
phlebotomists are all examples of... - Correct Answers Unliscenced personnel, also called ...
-NAP (nursiing assistive personnel)
Who can an RN delegate tasks to? - Correct Answers other RNs, LPNs, and AP
What tasks CAN'T the RN delegate? - Correct Answers -The nursing process
-educating a client
-Tasks that require nursing judgement
Prior to delegating care the nurse should consider...?
(Task factors that would make the task the responsibility of the RN) - Correct Answers -Predictability (
routine treatment w/ predicatable outcome?)
-Potential for Harm (can something negative happen to the client?)
-Complexity (CAN THE DELEGATEE LEGALLY PERFORM THE TASK??? DO THEY HAVE NECESSARY SKILL
BASE??)
-Judgement/assessment ( is judging essential? Are nursing assessment skills needed?)
, -Level of Interaction (Do we need to perform psychosocial support or education?)
What are the five rights of delegation? - Correct Answers Make sure you have the right...
-Task
-circumstance
-Person
-Direction/communication
-Supervision/evaluation
Right task - Correct Answers Is repetitive, requires little supervision, relatively noninvasive
Right circumstance - Correct Answers How complex is the care the patient needs? Does the team-
member have the skill/ time to accomplish the task?
Right person - Correct Answers Is the task within the team-member's scope of practice? Does the
teram-member have the right training?
-Continually review/assess the team-member's performance.
What are some tasks that would be incorrect to delegate to an AP? - Correct Answers -Monitoring RN's
assessment, reinforcing client teaching/education, tracheostomy care, suctioning, checking nasogastric
tube patency, administering enteral feedings, inserting a urinary catheter, administer meds
-THESE ARE ALL LPN DELEGATEE TASKS!!!!
Right direction/communication - Correct Answers Collect right data, have the right method for
reporting assessment findings, specific tasks- to perform
Right supervision/evaluation - Correct Answers -The RN MUST provide supervision either directly or
indirectly by assigning supervision to another licensed nurse
-Provide clear directions and expectations
-Moniter and intervene if necessary
-Evaluate the client and determine the outcome status
healthcare team.
-YOU retain accountability!
Supervising - Correct Answers the process of directing, monitoring, and evaluating performance of tasks
by another member of the healthcare team.
The RN is responsible for supervision of client care tasks delegated to... - Correct Answers -Assistive
Personnel (AP)
-Liscnenced Practical Nurses
Certified nursing assistants, certified medicine assistants, dialysis techs, monitor technicians,
phlebotomists are all examples of... - Correct Answers Unliscenced personnel, also called ...
-NAP (nursiing assistive personnel)
Who can an RN delegate tasks to? - Correct Answers other RNs, LPNs, and AP
What tasks CAN'T the RN delegate? - Correct Answers -The nursing process
-educating a client
-Tasks that require nursing judgement
Prior to delegating care the nurse should consider...?
(Task factors that would make the task the responsibility of the RN) - Correct Answers -Predictability (
routine treatment w/ predicatable outcome?)
-Potential for Harm (can something negative happen to the client?)
-Complexity (CAN THE DELEGATEE LEGALLY PERFORM THE TASK??? DO THEY HAVE NECESSARY SKILL
BASE??)
-Judgement/assessment ( is judging essential? Are nursing assessment skills needed?)
, -Level of Interaction (Do we need to perform psychosocial support or education?)
What are the five rights of delegation? - Correct Answers Make sure you have the right...
-Task
-circumstance
-Person
-Direction/communication
-Supervision/evaluation
Right task - Correct Answers Is repetitive, requires little supervision, relatively noninvasive
Right circumstance - Correct Answers How complex is the care the patient needs? Does the team-
member have the skill/ time to accomplish the task?
Right person - Correct Answers Is the task within the team-member's scope of practice? Does the
teram-member have the right training?
-Continually review/assess the team-member's performance.
What are some tasks that would be incorrect to delegate to an AP? - Correct Answers -Monitoring RN's
assessment, reinforcing client teaching/education, tracheostomy care, suctioning, checking nasogastric
tube patency, administering enteral feedings, inserting a urinary catheter, administer meds
-THESE ARE ALL LPN DELEGATEE TASKS!!!!
Right direction/communication - Correct Answers Collect right data, have the right method for
reporting assessment findings, specific tasks- to perform
Right supervision/evaluation - Correct Answers -The RN MUST provide supervision either directly or
indirectly by assigning supervision to another licensed nurse
-Provide clear directions and expectations
-Moniter and intervene if necessary
-Evaluate the client and determine the outcome status
