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Chapter 01
Delegation and Supervision
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nurses delegate certain nursing tasks and activities to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), such as? | patient care technicians (PCTs) or nursing assistants (NAs). |
| What is the process of transferring to a competent person the authority to perform a selected nursing task or activity in a selected patient care situation. | Delegation |
| Five rights are followed when delegating and supervising a nursing task or activity to a UAP: Which are? | Right task Right circumstances Right person Right communication Right supervision |
| The nurse is always responsible for the task or activity that is? | delegated. |
| Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the integration of best current evidence to make decisions about patient care. It considers the patient’s? | preferences and values, as well as one’s own clinical expertise. |
| Quality Improvement (QI), sometimes called evidence based practice improvement (EBPI), ensures patient? | SAFETY by systematically reviewing procedures, processes, and care to continuously improve the care and safety for patients. |
| The KSAs have specific tools to measure QI, including? | root cause analysis and impacting changes in care processes. |
| Nurses are active participants in the systematic QUALITY IMPROVEMENT process in their? | health care agency. |
| Informatics involves using information and technology to? | communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making. |
| INFORMATICS and technology are used for patient? | documentation, electronic data access, and health care resource tracking. |
| Nurses play a key role in promoting SAFETY and preventing errors, including? | “missed nursing care.” |