The Five Role Of Delegation In The Healthcare Industry

In healthcare industry, delegation of tasks can be defined as the transfer of a particular nursing responsibility to team members such as Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) or Unlicensed Assistive personnel (UAP). While the nursing leader /Registered Nurse (RN) transfers the responsibility to other staff members, he/she retains the professional responsibility of the final outcome (Mueller & Vogelsmeier, 2013). Delegation is guided by specific principles to ensure that the delegated duty is performed as per the instructions of the RN. Since authority is transferred to other staff members who may not be well acquainted with the task, supervision is very important. For instance, the current case study, a group leader is required to delegate responsibilities to his/her team members including UAP, LPN, and LVN. Moreover, it is important to consider the nature of the task being delegated to the UAP (Corazzini et al., 2013). This paper is aimed at exploring rules of task delegation in nursing profession by applying the five rights of delegation. The discussion is based on the provided case study involving a team composed of an RN, LVP/LPN, and a UAP. The team is required to provide healthcare services to six patients

For instance, the team leader/RN could not delegate most of the tasks to the UAP since he/she feared that the UAP could underperform or deliver poor results. In the case study, it is indicated that the UAP had just been hired recently and hence he/she lacked the full understanding on how to provide nursing care to the patients. This led to the team leader performing most of the tasks. It is indicated that the UAP was constantly asking the RN questions yet the RN may have been busy attending to other patients. For example, the UAP tells the RN that Mr. L is feeling short of breath after walking to the