Nursing Delegation: Safety, Prioritization and Caring

Nursing Delegation
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Nursing Delegation
Nursing delegation is defined as the process by which a nurse directs another individual to undertake the nursing activities and tasks. The employment of nurse delegation occurs majorly when there is a shortage of nurses and there is a need to curb its effects. The deficiency of nurses might affect the effectiveness of safety care required by people with intricate, intense, and chronic health care needs. The paper highlights the delegation management, the principles of delegation and the best usage of the available workforce.
Cherry and Jacob (2014) argue that the shortage of experienced and registered nurses calls for strategies to augment the available resource through the employment of unlicensed and lesser skilled health workers. Therefore, nurses must have the skills required to safely delegate duties to the diverse workforce (Weatherspoon, Sullivan, Wilson, & Parsons, 2013). The delegation principles include responsibility, accountability, Assistive Personnel (AP) determination, components of care delegation, and clear verifications and communication.
The Registered Nurse (RN) is ultimately responsible for all aspects of nurse delegation (Weatherspoon et al., 2013). Accountability for delegation lies upon the r...