Delegation & Assignment Table

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lOMoARcPSD|13111427




Delegation & Assignment Table


Collaborative Healthcare (Chamberlain University)

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RN Float RN New RN LPN UAP
Patient Type
Unstable, Acute, Acute or Chronic Acute or Chronic, Stable, & Chronic, Stable, & Stable
Complicated, or with Stable if possible Uncomplicated Uncomplicated Examples:
Specialized Training Complicated if match (Predictable outcomes, can (Predictable outcomes)  COPD, DM, UTIs
Examples: experience with similar be a little more complicated Examples:
 Chemotherapy, patients than what LPNs can take  COPD, DM
drips, high risk Examples: care of)  Contagious Patients Unstable if supervised
medications  Cardiac ICU RN with Examples:  24hr: Post Op (Supervision must go up if
 New patients new MI  New RN with 72hr: Post MI patient is becoming
 Discharge education  PACU RN with chronic CVA  1 Week: CVA's, SCI's, unstable—think of the 5
 Tracheostomy, recent surgery  New RN with COPD Ventilators, Low rights of Delegation)
Vents, complicated  Oncology RN with  New RN with Coma Scale Examples:
skills low H/H Pancreatitis (will  Post-op
 New diagnoses need IV pain meds,  Code if RN there
 Changes in status best to give to New
(new chest pain, RN since this is
new facial droop) within their scope)