Effective Delegation page 509
As a nurse leader, you recognize that everyone at all levels of the health care organization is being asked to do more and accept more responsibility. Therefore, it seems inappropriate to ask your Charge Nurse to take on another task or responsibility. However, you also realize that you must focus your efforts to be the most productive for the entire unit.
Question #1
a) Discuss strategies to overcome the tendency to under delegate appropriate tasks to your charge nurse.
Question #2
Reflect on a time when you delegated a task to an unlicensed assistive person (i.e., CNA, nursing assistant)
a) Using the Kentucky Board of Nursing Decision Tree for Delegation to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel, deconstruct the events of your delegation experience.
b) Analyze what you learned from that experience.
Guidelines:
- Initial post: Respond to the discussion questions posted in Discussion board by Monday (11:59pm) must be at least 150 to 200 words in length to earn credit for the assignmen