Assignment: Assigning, Delegating, Supervising, and Prioritizing Care
Competency
Integrate leadership and management principles and attributes in nursing practice
Scenario
You are assigned to six patients on the medical surgical unit working with a LPN/LVN and share a CNA with another RN. You are receiving report for your patients and need to identify what activities you will be assigning, delegating, supervising, and prioritizing for the shift.
Instructions
I. Client number I: 50-year old male who had a heart attack and stent placed with normal vital signs
II. Client number II: 46-year-old female with full-thickness burns to the leg who needs to have dressings changed
III. Client number III: 33-year-old male firefighter who has fallen and broken his right femur after surgery with pain in his leg
IV. Client number IV: 18-year-old male with wheezing and labored respirations unrelieved by an inhaler
V. Client number V: 74-year-old female with new onset dementia awaiting lab results
VI. Client number VI: 52-year-old female who has been recently diagnoses with diabetes type 2 and is getting discharged
i. Describe the patients you will be assigning to the LPN
ii. Describe the care that you will be delegating to the LPN and CNA
iii. List the interventions that you would want to supervise for the LPN and CNA
iv. List the clients and care from the highest to lowest priority
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.