Nclex: delegating assingments to other nurses

[Yenta7]

Please help! I'm scheduled to take my exam soon and I still can't find questions on delegating to other RNs. I've been using Saunders and Kaplans, and while they have several questions on assigning patients to LPN/LVN they don't have any guidelines for which patients to assign to say a nurse whose floating on another ward.

I remember there was a presentation done at the NSNA conference that did featured a question like that. In the question a charge nurse on an OB ward had a nurse floating in from the telemetry ward. In the question the charge nurse had to decide which patient to assign her too. I remember (vaguely) that the rule for that question was to assign her to a patient that was similar to what she was used to (I think it was a patient with Pre-eclampsia on Mag Sulfate or something) since she would be more familiar with the symptoms.

So my question is, are there any other rules/guidelines for assigning patients to nurses floating in from another ward?

[worrier]

Saunders has some information regarding floating nurses...

* Nurses in floating situation must not assume responsibility beyond their level of experience or qualification.

* Nurses who float should inform the supervisor of lack of experience in caring for the type of clients on the new nursing unit

hope this information helps.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Developed this sticky as repeated concern: Delegation in Nursing