Delegation Examples in a Healthcare Care Setting Presentation Delegation Examples in a Healthcare Care Setting Presentation Slide 2 What is Delegation? According to the American Nurses Association and National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Delegation is the act of directing and overseeing another a competent person who is executing a nursing task or activity. Speaker Note: Delegation is important in nursing to be able to free up time for tasks are complex and cannot be delegated. It is way to work effectively as a team to provide safe and better care for the clients. Slide 3 The delegation process Familiarize yourself with the practice and organization Identify you own barriers Identify your team's strength and weakness
Assignment 2: Conceptual/critical thinking exercise – The concept of trust and the nurse-patient relationship The concept of trust and nurse-patient relationship The bulk of the nursing literature tends to agree that trust underpins good nursing practice and is a vital component of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship (Hem, Heggen & Ruyter, 2008; Johns, 1996; Belcher, 2009). However, there is much ambiguity in the literature about what this abstract concept actually means. The purpose of this essay is to define and develop the concept of trust as it relates to the nurse-patient relationship. This essay will also highlight the importance of trust in the nurse-patient relationship and some of the good points and bad points about this concept. In addition to this, the role of nursing theory and research in concept development will briefly be discussed.
University of Phoenix Material Appendix A: Matrix of Theoretical Models Theoretical Model | Description of Theoretical Model | Type of health care change situation where model best applies | Kurt Lewin’s change theory | Kurt Lewin’s change theory model describes three stages of change that involves the freezing stage, the moving stage, and the refreezing stage (Ngozi, 2010). During the unfreezing stage, the nurse recognizes the need for change, creating awareness and beginning the process of accepting the imminent change. This step involves making nurses gain understanding on their daily activities, unlearn their bad habits, and expose themselves to new methods of attaining the objectives. This stage involves searching a method to make it possible for people abandon an old pattern that was inefficient. In the second stage, moving, the nurse accepts the need for change and implements the change.
In Monitor Alarm Fatigue: An Integrative Review, research evidence was broken down into themes including: effect of excessive alarms on staff, nurse’s response to alarms, alarm sounds and audibility, technology to reduce false alarms, and alarm notification systems. Non-research evidence revealed strategies to reduce alarm desensitization. Cvach concluded the article with evidence-based practice recommendations for technology manufacturers, hospitals, and caregivers. One nursing intervention recommended was to adjust alarm parameters so that they are customized to each individual’s actual needs. This intervention ensures that the alarms are valid and that they will provide and early warning to potential critical situations.
It is essential that patients know you care and want to help them. This is shown by making good use of the time spent with them, your tone, speed and volume of voice and listening carefully. Patients may divulge more information to nurses they trust due to the rapport that has been built, therefore it is vital to attempt to create as much of a close professional relationship as possible despite any barriers that may be in place. This essay will analyse part of the BBC TV programme “Someone To Watch Over Me” (2004) and how Jo, a social worker promotes health through communicating with Adam and Kim, the parents of Kim’s fourth child after her first three have previously been taken into care. 1a.
KOT 1 Task 1 Two strategies that enable a nurse on an interdisciplinary team to exert leadership without occupying a formal leadership position are being a role model and a problem solver. To be a role model you must demonstrate to your peers and coworkers how to do the right thing all the time; to know that making the right decision isn’t always the easiest one to make but it’s the only decision to make. The leaders of the world, musicians and actors are all role models; they are all looked on and modeled after. I want to be a role model in healthcare; I want to be that difference. Problem solvers don’t have to be scientist; they just have to be good at figuring out why things happen certain ways and how you may fix those problems.
Lillian Wald emphasized the significance of prevention. A practice that continues to be reiterated everywhere. As seen in commercials or billboards or even on the radio, prevention is key to a long, healthy lifestyle. When patients leave the hospital, discharge education is vital to making sure they are capable to care for themselves and, hopefully, bring down the numbers of hospital visits. F. Scenario Sometimes patients are admitted into the hospital for something as simple as daily intravenous antibiotics.
Components of good documentation are the same as Watson’s theory and nursing process; assessment, plan of action, intervention, and evaluation. A caring nurse will want to be able to improve and become more efficient with documentation so that they are able to provide more direct nursing care to their patients. Carative factor number seven in Watson’s theory call for the promotion of interpersonal teaching-learning. This describes “the caring nurses as one that must focus on the learning process as much as the teaching process” (Current Nursing, 2012, para. 3).
How the ANA Code of Nursing Ethics would influence a final decision in each case study. With the patient with the hemorrhagic stroke, it is our responsibility to discuss with the patient’s family possible options in which they would feel comfortable taking. According to the Code of Nursing Ethics, “the nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, or community” (ANA Code of Nursing Ethics). With the patient having no advanced directives, the decision is much harder to take. Ethics committees can be useful in this situation, because they can help explain the patient’s situation and provide possible answers to those hard questions.
Running head: LEADERSHIP Leadership Yvonne Lucas Western Governors University Organizational Systems & Quality Leadership RKOT Tammy Nelson Jul 29, 2012 Leadership Two strategies that enable a nurse on an interdisciplinary team to exert leadership without occupying a formal leadership position are taking responsibility for the problems and connecting the problem of the powerless to the strategic and business concerns of the powerful (Reinertsen, 2011, p.3). A strong leader will take a stance of not joining in with the complaining about a problem but instead take responsibility for the problems. It is very easy for employees to point out and complain about problems that they see or experience within their work environment.