Organizations are required to follow specific behaviors and actions that provide nurses with the resources they need in order to efficiently delegate. Some of these are listed below. Which is not necessarily correct?
a. Maintain adequate staffing.
b. Provide standards for ongoing supervision and periodic licensure/ competency verification and evaluation of all staff.
c. Facilitate regular evidence-based reviews of critical standards, policies, procedures, nurses, and nursing diagnosis.
d. Consider the need to develop a shared governance model of nursing practice encouraging active participation of all nurses in decision-making and delegation standards.
C
A number of organizational elements are required to assist nurses with effective delegation. Organizations which take an active role in supporting nurses by providing resource materials and support enhance the RN's potential to delegate nursing tasks and actions correctly and efficiently. Some of these organizational elements include: 1) maintain adequate staffing; 2) provide standards for ongoing supervision and periodic licensure/competency verification and evaluation of all staff; 3) facilitate regular evidence-based reviews of critical standards, policies, procedures (nursing evaluation is done by individual nurse supervisors not necessarily the organization as a whole; nursing diagnosis is part of the nursing process performed by individual nurses); 4) consider the need to develop a shared governance model of nursing practice encouraging active participation of all nurses in decision-making and delegation standards; and 5) develop intrahospital and intraagency safety transfer policies.
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