Nursing Delegation, Setting Priorities, and Making Patient Care Assignments 2nd Edition is designed to build the diverse skills your students need in today's world of nursing, where many institutions rely on nurses to delegate critical tasks. This book will teach your students how to safely delegate, an indispensable skill in the delivery of quality patient care.
Nursing Delegation, Setting Priorities, and Making Patient Care Assignments 2nd Edition discusses the demanding roles of a professional nurse and explores the elements of decision making, which nurses use most, while also highlighting the importance of communication, time management, and accountability.
Key Features
- Includes learning tools such as Case Studies, Real World Interviews, Stop and Think Exercises and Literature Applications.
- Presents various points of view through interviews with staff nurses, nursing administrators, physicians, and others.
- Includes NCLEX style review questions, and activities.
- Includes literature applications that link current studies to daily practice and include citations, discussion points, and implications for nursing practice.
New to this edition
- New chapter on NCLEX-RN preparation, to help students improve knowledge, manage anxiety, and enhance test-taking skills.
- New information in the communication chapter on status differences, avoiding groupthink, personality types, and resource management.
- Adds updates throughout the book, including updates to the legal aspects of nursing, written by a nurse lawyer.
- Adds new forms and examples, web resources and revised tables and charts that enhance enjoyment and the overall appeal of the book.
- Includes new patient care scenarios, critical thinking exercises, review questions, review activities, case studies, and internet applications that enhance learning and retention of new text material.
Contents
- 1. Concept of Delegation.
- 2. NCSBN Delegation Decision-Making Tree and The Five Rights.
- 3. Effective Communication.
- 4. Time Management, Setting Priorities, and Making .
- 5. Legal Aspects of Patient Care and Delegation.
- 6. NCLEX-RN Preparation.
About the Author
- Patricia Kelly holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from DePaul University and a master's degree from Loyola University in Chicago. She has taught conferences for the Joint Commission on Accreditation for Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) and was the director of quality improvement at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. She is a professor emerita at Purdue University—Calumet. She continues to work as a part-time staff nurse in the emergency department and is an active Red Cross disaster relief volunteer.
Product Details
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 2 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 143548178X
- ISBN-13: 978-1435481787
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
List Price: $42.95