NUR 475 DELEGATION SEPTEMBER SERIES

Which healthcare team member is familiar with all the needs of any individual client? Nursing aide Patient care associate Charge nurse Orderly - Correct Answer-Charge nurse Which health care team member supervises unps in providing to the client? Charge nurse Nurse manager RN PCA - Correct Answer-RN Which component of delegation is the ability to perform duties in a specific role Authority Responsibility Accountability Legal authority - Correct Answer-Authority Which team member is most accountable when delegating a task to the health care team? Certified technician RN LPN UAP - Correct Answer-RN Which health care team member is responsible for analyzing the knowledge and work of newly hired UAP before delegating a task? Charge nurse Associate nurse RN Nursing manager - Correct Answer-RN Which component of delegation is retained while the delegator is delegating the clients care task to the nursing aide? Authority Supervision Responsibility Accountability - Correct Answer-Accountability NUR 475 NUR 475 Which health care team member is the designated delegator? Unit secretary Nurse manager RN LPN - Correct Answer-nurse manager Which description by the nurse is a correct explanation of delegation? - the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity - the person's responsibility and accountability for individual actions or omissions - the active process of directing, guiding, and influencing the outcome of an individual - the transfer of both accountability and responsibility from one person to another - Correct Answer-the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity A client with chronic asthma is being cared for in the inpatient care unit. Which health care team member would be delegated to assess the client on a regular basis? Charge nurse RN PCA LPN - Correct Answer-RN Which important consideration of the delegator is applicable to the selling in hersey model? - Delegatee requires explanation - Delegatee requires more guidance - Delegatee requires mutual expectations - delegatee requires conditions for performance - Correct Answer-Delegatee requires explanation Which component of delegation is considered a two way process? Authority Supervision Responsibility Accountability - Correct Answer-Responsibility Which individual would be given dependent status? Unit Secretary Nurse manager RN LPN - Correct Answer-LPN Which component of delegation is suitable to all members of the health care team? Authority Supervision Accountability Communication - Correct Answer-authority NUR 475 NUR 475 Which professionals in a health care organization can be delegators? Assistants Technicians RN Client care associates - Correct Answer-RN Which health care team member is responsible for the coordination and assignments of client care? Charge nurse Nurse manager Chief nursing officer PCA - Correct Answer-Charge nurse Which primary task is achieved by a delegator when delegating a task to a delegatee for an effective outcome? Managing Renewing Explaining Motivating - Correct Answer-motivating Which type of relationship between the nurse delegator and delegatee causes the nurse delegator to use the leadership behavior of telling? Limited Established New or developing Developing or ongoing - Correct Answer-Limited Which behavior of the nurse leader is characterized as delegating according to herseys model? Guiding or directing Observing or monitoring Explaining or persuading Encouraging or problem-solving - Correct Answer-observing or monitoring Which member of the health care team would the nurse claim performs functions through passive delegation? Pharmacist Unit secretary LPN UAP - Correct Answer-Pharmacist Which health care team member functions as a liaison between team leaders and other health care providers? Charge nurse NUR 475 NUR 475 RN Nursing manager Chief nursing officer - Correct Answer-charge nurse Which entity outlines the principles of delegation for registered nurses RN? Nurse practice act Multilevel nursing model ANA NCSBN - Correct Answer-ANA Which definition of delegation given by the nurse is correct? - Delegation refers to activities undertaken by a group of people who have common interests - delegation refers to transfer of both accountability and task responsibility from one person to another - delegation refers to an organized and innovative plan that helps an organization achieve its objects - delegation refers to the process for the nurses to direct another person to perform nursing tasks and activities - Correct Answer-delegation refers to process for the nurse to direct another person to perform nursing tasks and activities In a healthcare organization, which role would a resource person assigned by the nurse manager have? Delegate tasks Supervise action Serves as a mentor Reassigns duties to workers - Correct Answer-serves as a mentor Which professionals in a health care organization can be delegators? Assistants Technicians RN Client care associates - Correct Answer-RN Which health care professional would the nurse know is held accountable for the tasks performed by the patient care associate? RN Licensed vocational nurse UAP UNP - Correct Answer-RN Which task can the registered nurse safely delegate to the UAP while caring for a client with gastroesophageal reflex disease? Positioning the bed Evaluating the vitals NUR 475 Tube feeding the client Determining calorie needs - Correct Answer-positioning the bed In which situation would a delegator identify that a delegatee is unable to perform an assigned task? When delegatee is upset When a delegatee is bored When a delegatee is anxious When the delegatee is knowledge deficit - Correct Answer-when a delegatee is knowledge deficit Which motto is the main focus of herseys 2006 model? Information decay Information salience Situational leadership Individual accountability - Correct Answer-situational leadership Which activity indicates improper follow through on the part of the delegatee? Failure to report results in a timely manner Ineffective communication Performing a task in the absence of a delegator Failure in following guidelines provided by a delegator - Correct Answer-failure to report