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Module  – Professional Practice: Time Management, delegation, scope of practice

Scope of Practice/ Delegation/Advocacy

ACTIVITY 1

Access the following summary of Benner’s stage of clinical competence and consider these along with the NMBA competencies and decision making tools. Then, consider what your priorities for your final semester are and consider what skills you need to consolidate that will assist in you making the transition from student to registered nurse.

Reading:

Benner’s stages of clinical competence

Reading:

NMBA Nursing Standards for practice (2016)

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. (2013). A national framework for the development of decision-making tools for nursing and midwifery practice.

Role of delegation

ACTIVITY 2:

While you are out on placement, observe how other staff delegate, who delegates and what forms of communication they use to effectively delegate. As basis for this observation please read:

Reading:

Pearce, C. (2006). Leadership resources. Ten steps to effective delegation. Nursing Management, UK, 13(8), 19.

Role of Advocacy

ACTIVITY 3:

Readings:

Read the following articles to further your understanding of advocacy.

Choi, P. (2015). Patient advocacy: the role of the nurse, Nursing Standard, 29 (41) 52-58.

While the following article is dated 2002, it still contains information that is relevant and pertinent to your role in understanding patient advocacy.

Schwartz, L. (2002). Is there an advocate in the house? The role of health care professionals in patient advocacy. Journal of Medical Ethics, 28(1), 37-40.

Professional Portfolio Written Assessment Re-cap

As part of this module please undertake the following activity and add it to your written assessment.

Please remember that this forms part of your assessment for this unit.

You are a Registered Nurse on the afternoon shift on a short-stay (24 hours) surgical ward. One other RN, an EN and three AINs are also on duty. The NUM is off sick and the other RN is acting as NUM as well as taking a patient load. The ward is full: there are 22 patients, 14 of whom went to surgery in the morning, and 8 are going on your shift. Half of these patients have intravenous access and require antibiotics at some time during yourshift.

ACTIVITY:

Using your knowledge and experience of various patient allocation models (e.g. total patient care, team nursing and task allocation), outline how you would allocate the staff to the patients.

Include in your discussion your rationale for the model of allocation chosen and the scope of practice of the various staff.