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Leading and Learning: Building Professional Capacity

   

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RUNNING HEAD: LEADING AND LEARNING: BUILDING PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY 1
Leading and learning: Building professional Capacity
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LEADING AND LEARNING: BUILDING PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY 2
Leading and learning: Building professional capacity
INTRODUCTION
Delegation can be defined as the act of issuing authority to another person to accomplish
certain tasks. The person who provided the authority or delegated the task still remains
accountable for the results (Copeman, 2014). There are 5 rights that govern delegation in nursing
practice and they include the right task, the right circumstance, the right person, the right
communication and finally the right supervision. The delegation process involves defining the
task to be delegated, decide on the delegate, determine the task, reach an agreement, monitor the
performance and finally provide the feedback.
CHOICE OF THE ISSUE AND JUSTIFICATION
For my assignment, I have chosen delegation of duties. This is because delegation of
duties is one of the issues that is experienced or exercised in the nursing practice on several
incidences. The nursing profession requires a nurse to be on duty each and every time because
the disease process is usually unpredictable. Besides, the nursing process involves emergencies
like accidents (Démeh & Rosengren, 2015). Nurses are also expected to be in constant
supervision of patients throughout. Due to this commitment nature of the job, it is necessary at
one given time to delegate duties because the nurse in charge might be having some other urgent
or pressing issues to handle such as sickness or family issues. Delegation of duties has both
advantages and disadvantages within the nursing practice (Fischer, 2016). The advantages
includes improving time management, building trust within the organization and it enables on to
take advantage of the specialized skills for once (Harris, 2017). The disadvantages of delegation
on the other hand include possible miscommunication conflicts, lack of desired commitments
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and the risk for inferior results. Even though delegation is necessary, the due steps to delegation
should be adhered to for better outcome or results.
EXPLANATION OF IMPACT IF THE ISSUE IS UNRESLOVED
If delegation of duties is left unresolved at the hospital, there will be conflict at the
workplace and impact on positive nursing teamwork. This is because delegation causes
miscommunication conflicts and leads to lack of commitment (Lee & Kim, 2017). Delegation
also leads to the risk of inferior or poor results. Since delegation of duties in the nursing
department is all about the senior and experienced nurses leaving out certain duties for the junior
nurses to accomplish, there could be a possibility of miscommunication on the overall
expectation of the job and this leads to conflicts between the seniors and the junior staffs. The
juniors who are assigned the duty would fear to seek clarification for potential sacking since they
will appear incompetent enough (Lin, MacLennan, Hunt, & Cox, 2015). The senior nurses on the
other hand would assume the complexity or the difficulty of the task and assume how simple it is
to the juniors as it is to them and they would feel there is no need for thorough explanation of the
task. This contrasting ideas on how the task would be achieved is the one that leads to conflict.
Delegation of duties will also impact the nursing teamwork at the hospital due to the lack
of commitment. During delegation of tasks, studies have shown that the subordinate staff who
has been delegated the task might not have the passion as the senior nursing staff themselves
(Tyczkowski et al., 2015). This is due to the fact that it might never be their original idea from
the onset. A good example is when you work hard for several months providing patient
education and elicit positive reactions from the patients, then you will value the whole process
than the person who never witnessed the original efforts(Wong, 2015). Lack of commitment
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