Delegation and Assignment Authority

After working through this material you should be able to: - Distinguish assignment, delegation, supervision, teaching and consultation, and say which of them needs a formal authorizing step. - Name the authorizing mechanisms that give a nurse the authority to act (orders, directives, delegation and initiation) and explain which one applies to a given activity in Ontario. - State, with the province named, who may delegate what to whom in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, and explain why the answer changes at a provincial border. - Apply the three questions of authority, context and competence before accepting or giving any activity. - Judge whether a client is stable and predictable enough for a task to be handed to a care provider who is not a regulated nurse. - Write a direction that names the task, the limits, what to report, to whom, and by when. - List what a nurse can never transfer, even when a task is handed on. - Document a delegation, and document a concern about an assignment, in a way that stands up later. - Work...