As the nurse manager of the unit, it is important for you to ...

[asmith134]

As the nurse manager of the unit, it is important for you to consider which of the following when making patient assignments?
 
  a. Staff education levels, skill sets, cultural traditions, willingness to be a team player
  b. Staff education levels, scope of practice, experience, and patient acuity
  c. Staff skill sets, education levels, timeliness, and patient acuity
  d. Patient acuity, staff experience, education, and ethnicity

Question 2

As an RN, you recognize that delegation involves which of the following?
 
  a. Assigning your staff to tasks that need to be completed
  b. Transferring responsibility for the performance of a task from one individual to anotherwhile retaining accountability for the outcome
 c. Identifying the appropriate individual to give care and demonstrate accountability for thatcare
 d. Transferring accountability for the provision of care to the individual assigned to give the
  care

[billybob123]

Answer to Question 1

B
When making patient care assignments, you must consider staff education levels, scope of practice,
experience, and patient acuity. An assignment is a distribution of work that each staff member is to
accomplish during a given time period according to their scope of practice. An NAP should not be
assigned to irrigate a colostomy or do a dressing change of a stage II decubitus ulcer even if the NAP
is very experienced. Willingness to be a team player and skill level are important, but they should not
be the sole factors when making assignments.

Answer to Question 2

B
As an RN, you would recognize that delegation involves the transfer of responsibility for the
performance of a task from one individual to another while retaining accountability for the outcome.
When making assignments, you would identify the appropriate staff members to complete specific
tasks. While the staff members are responsible for their assigned tasks, you as the RN always retains
accountability.