Nursing EDGE: evaluating delegation guidelines in education

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Deborah HendersonTim Blake

Abstract

Delegation, an important concept for nursing students to learn and practice, is central to registered nurse (RN) performance, and important on the NCLEX-RN examination. Nursing faculty members from an ADN program designed a descriptive study to evaluate planned versus actual delegation in the curriculum, and a second study to evaluate an intervention on delegation. Study One assessed the presence of delegation in each nursing course. Statistical analysis compared the planned implementation with the results for student definitions of delegation, and identification of the five rights of delegation based on the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) definition and five rights. Study one results are shared. Study Two utilized a comparison of pre-to-post intervention measures. Students were asked to complete eight steps of a delegation exercise and determine what could be delegated to an unlicensed assistant, and what should be completed by the RN. Answers were coded and entered into SPSS. Statistical analysis compared each student's ability to correctly identify the five rights of delegation prior to the exercise, against the ability to correctly answer five questions two weeks post exercise. Significant improvement (p...Continue Reading

Citations

Mar 13, 2012·Nurse Education Today·Felicity HassonSinead Keeney
Jul 20, 2011·Journal of Professional Nursing : Official Journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing·Deborah A LekanDonald E Bailey
May 17, 2011·Journal of Nursing Management·Scott J Saccomano, Genevieve Pinto-Zipp
Jun 14, 2012·Nursing Research and Practice·Deirdre JackmanOlive Yonge

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