Which of the following are considered to be obstacles to delegation for new nurses?

Question

a. fear of being disliked
b. inability to develop working relationships with other team members
c. lack of confidence to move past being a novice nurse, fear of staff refusing to carry out delegated tasks
d. lack of administrative support, communica-tion skills that are focused on patient safety only
e. belief that you are the only one who can perform a task correctly
f. tendency to isolate oneself and perform tasks alone

Answer 1

A, C, E, F
A number of obstacles that can impair effective delegation have been identified. These obstacles may lead to overdelegation or underdelegation of tasks particularly by new nurses. Some of these include: 1) fear of being disliked; 2) belief that you are the only one who can perform the task correctly; 3) inability to develop working relationships with other team members; 4) lack of confidence to move past being a novice nurse; 5) fear of staff refusing to carry out delegated tasks; 6) lack of administrative support; 7) poor communication skills (not only those that are focused on patient safety); and 8) tendency to isolate oneself and perform tasks alone.