After morning report, the RN held a mini conference with a team member, a licensed nurses' aide, and assigned the following duties: bathe and make beds for all your assigned patients, answer lights, ambulate all those ambulatory and turn
nonambulatory patients every 2 hours, and report complaints or needs of the patients to the RN. Periodically during the day the RN checked with the aide to determine whether the aide was having difficulty in completing the tasks. The RN was frequently in patient rooms observing and performing their own duties. What is this an example of?
A) Improper delegation
B) Not trusting an employee
C) Effective delegation
D) Micromanagement
C
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Research endeavors that are not based on theory have little utility to the nursing profession
A) True B) False
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