NURS 3715W Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel, National Council Licensure Examination, Dangerous Goods
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Assigning, delegating and supervising disaster planning emergency response. Health care team: licensed personnel (lp): nurses who have completed course of study and have passed the. Nclex-pn: assistive personnel (ap): specifically trained to function in assistive role to licensed nurses in client care activities. Involves: reliability, dependability, obligation to accomplish work when assignment is accepted: performing at acceptable level level of education, rn transfers responsibility and authority for completion of delegated task, but maintains accountability. Nursing assistive personnel responsibility: trained to perform duties: bathing, feeding, toileting, and ambulating, document and report information related to the duties, deliver supportive care, cannot be assigned to assess or evaluate responses to treatment. New graduate responsibility: need to focus on duties that they are directly responsible, review nurse practice act legal authority, determines what level of licensed nurse is authorized to delegate, know your limits. Authority: the right to delegate duties and give direction to nursing assistive personnel (nap) places.
