Author Question: The RN is delegating tasks to the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). Which tasks can the nurse ... (Read 73 times)

naturalchemist · **on:** Jun 28, 2018

The RN is delegating tasks to the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). Which tasks can the nurse delegate? (Select all that apply.)

a. Teaching the client about breast care
b. Assessment of a client's lochia and perineal area
c. Assisting a client to the bathroom for the first time after birth
d. Vital signs on a postpartum client who delivered the night before
e. Assisting a postpartum client to take a shower on the second postpartum day

Question 2

A couple asks the nurse about the procedure for surrogate parenting. Which correct responses should the nurse give to the couple? (Select all that apply.)

a. Donated embryos can be implanted into the surrogate mother.
b. The surrogate mother needs to have carried one previous birth to term.
c. You both need to be infertile to be eligible for surrogate parenting.
d. Conception can take place outside the surrogate mother's body and then implanted.
e. The surrogate mother can be inseminated artificially with sperm from the intended father.

Tonny · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 28, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D, E
Nurses must be aware that they remain legally responsible for patient assessments and must make the critical judgments necessary to ensure patient safety when delegating tasks to unlicensed personnel. The nurse cannot delegate assessment, teaching, or evaluation. The two tasks that the nurse can delegate are vital signs on a stable postpartum client and assisting a stable postpartum client on the second postpartum day to take a shower.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A, D, E
In surrogate parenting, conception may take place outside the body using ova and sperm from the couple who wishes to become parents. These embryos are then implanted into the surrogate mother, or the surrogate mother may be inseminated artificially with sperm from the intended father. Donated embryos may also be implanted into a surrogate mother. The couple does not need to be infertile. The surrogate parent does not need to have previously carried a pregnancy to term.