Accepting Nurs. Delegation presentation help

[rollieem]

Hi all,

I have to do a 15-20 minute presentation on delegation soon and I having troubling structuring my presentation. To be more specific, I am presenting on the topic "Acceptance of Delegation Assignment". With this, I have to include the positive and negative implications for nursing, clients and health care.

First of all I don't really understand what it means to 'accept the delegation assignment'. So let me talk this out to myself, my guess is that as the nurse accepting the delegation assignment means being sure that the task you delegated to another medical team member is appropriate such as (does it follow the state's nurse practice act? does it follow hospital policies and procedures? Is it appropriate for the clinical situation? does it meet the pt.'s needs?

With postive and negative aspects...

Positive

+ clarifies role as leader of team

+ promotes job satisfaction for the whole team

Negative

- RN held responsible ( malpractice claims)

That's all I can think of for right now, how does that sound so far and am I going in the right direction for this presentation? THANKS!

[tyvin, BSN, RN]

Also the one delegating needs to make sure that the one that it's being delegated to is capable to carry out the delegated task whether it be supervised or not and that it need to be communicated when done. That's where the nursing judgment comes in assessing whether the job can be done the way it's suppose to be done along with all the other stuff you had.

Delegation is a two way street.

[rollieem]

Thank you, I did very well on my presentation!