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Nurses are legally responsible and accountable for competently completing assigned tasks and fulfilling the duties of their positions. One nursing duty, delegation, is given special attention within Nurse Practice Acts, and within descriptions of nursing’s Scopes of Practice. Regardless of your nursing specialty or work site, you likely delegate duties to someone else. It might be to some type of nursing personnel, CNA, Patient Care Techs, LPNs, or could be to a unit secretary, or to a staff person of some kind. Because when we delegate, we transfer to another person the authority and responsibility to complete the task, but we share with them the accountability for it getting completed competently. Delegation is a particular legal issue in nursing with implications for negligence or malpractice if not done correctly and monitored appropriately. Please review the materials provided and reflect on your own practice.
American Nurses Association (ANA) and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). (2019). Joint Statement on Delegation. Retrieved from https://www.ncsbn.org/nursing-regulation/practice/delegation.page
Review the materials located above.
Go to your course Journal and respond to the following questions. 100-150 words each should suffice.
Briefly describe a positive or a negative delegation experience you have had in nursing. You may describe an episode in which you were the delegator or one in which you were delegated to. You may also describe an episode that happened to someone else. Were any of the Principles of Delegation (page 2 in the resource above) present or missing and how did this affect your described experience?
Briefly describe a positive or a negative delegation experience you have had in nursing. You may describe an episode in which you were the delegator or one in which you were delegated to. You may also describe an episode that happened to someone else