According to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, there are five factors that a nurse should assess when making a decision to delegate nursing tasks
These factors are assessing the potential for harm, the complexity of the task, the amount of problem solving and innovation re-quired, the unpredictability of the outcome, and the: a. amount of time that the task will take.
b. degree of comfort the delegatee has with the task.
c. level of patient interaction.
d. method of measuring outcomes.
C
The level of patient interaction is the fifth factor that nurses should assess when making delega-tion decisions.
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