| Delegation to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel Price (includes one year of access and CE): US$14
Course Code: 7SENNF-PRV-09-libdel
CE: 2.50 Hours.
Post Test Score Required for Successful Completion: 80% |  |
Course Overview:
Nurses do not work in isolation. We are part of
a larger interdisciplinary health care team. In addition to being members of the
interdisciplinary health team, nurses are leaders of the nursing team. The nursing
team usually consists of RNs, LPNs/LVNs, and support personnel, called unlicensed
assistive personnel (UAPs). UAPs include, but are not limited to, nursing assistants,
aides, orderlies, patient care technicians, patient care assistants, personal care
attendants, nursing care associates, or nursing care partners. In the current environment,
the role of the professional nurse is to plan, manage, and direct the care of all clients,
but not necessarily to perform the care herself or himself. The skill of delegation,
therefore, becomes the key to successful nursing care.
Course Objectives:
After completion of this learning activity, the learner will be able to:
- describe the relationship among the client, the nurse, and the UAP.
- explain the following terms as they apply to the process of delegation: accountability, authority, delegation, delegator, delegatee, supervision, UAP.
- explain the difference between "assignment" and "delegation" as the terms are used in health care settings agencies.
- explain statutory and regulatory authority for delegation by nurses to UAPs.
- examine nursing liability related to delegation.
- identify the 5 Rights of Delegation.
- describe the information necessary and the decision-making processes used to make decisions about delegation.
- apply basic premises and principles to make reasonable decisions about delegation.
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HealthSoft, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
It has been assigned code 7SENNF-PRV-09.
This course is updated annually. Expiration date: 5/1/11
The faculty and planners of this course have no vested interests to disclose.
This course has received no commercial support.
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