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As an RN, you maintain accountability for overall patient care on the unit. The obligation of the NAPs to correctly perform their assigned duties is the NAP's:
 
  a. accountability. c. assignment.
  b. delegation. d. responsibility.

Question 2

Delegation is important for which reason?
 
  a. It is a means to organize the patient care needs according to acuity, desired outcomes, andstaff levels.
 b. It provides a way to assign difficult patients to uncooperative nurses.
  c. It enables new nurses to gain experience with difficult patients by themselves.
  d. It is a means to organize the patient care needs according to acuity, desired outcomes, and
  staff levels, and it provides a way to assign difficult patients to uncooperative nurses.



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Answer to Question 1

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The act of being responsible (responsibility) for one's actions includes reliability, dependability, the
obligation to accomplish work once the assignment has been accepted, and the desire to perform at an
acceptable level in accordance with one's educational level and experience.

Answer to Question 2

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While delegation, as defined by the ANA, is the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an
activity from one individual to another while retaining accountability for the outcome, the RN can use
this skill to organize how the staff is utilized to meet the patient care needs for the shift. When
delegating tasks to nursing personnel, the RN should take into consideration the patient's condition
(acuity), staff skills and experience, complexity of the task assigned, staff workload, desired outcomes,
and the amount of supervision needed to achieve the desired outcomes for the shift.





 

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