Delegation in Healthcare Units and Prioritization of Tasks

Module 1
Delegation can be explained as the multi-faceted skill sets that need to be harbored by every
healthcare professional in the healthcare units. Delegation is a complex procedure in the
professional healthcare practices that require sophisticated clinical judgments as well as final
accountability of the patient’s care (Barrow & McMillan, 2018). Delegation is considered to
be one of the most important skills in present day because of the growing nursing shortage,
rising of the patient acuity and the new emphasis that is put on patient satisfaction and patient
centered care. Registered nurses have the responsibility of conducting patient ongoing
reviews about their practices along with specific attentions given to the delegation procedures
(Kim & Gu, 2015). Five important aspects need to be followed by the professionals. These
steps include consideration of the correct task followed by taking into account the right
circumstances. They should be also considering the right person as well as the right directions
as well as communication and even right supervision and evaluation. In the present scenario,
different scenarios have been provided. The healthcare professionals need to undertake
proper delegation of the tasks to make sure that patient safety as well as quality care can be
provided.
The first priority would be the elderly postoperative patient. This is because she had
suffered a fall and had become unconscious. Becoming unconscious raises the concern of
facing injury in the head region that might become fatal if not taken care. Therefore, I would
need to make a met call. A code blue should be also initiated as she had faced a facial injury.
The second priority in the situation would be administering the antibiotics to the
patient named Mrs. Chew. She had already missed her antibiotics and her infusion had
tissues. Therefore, I will be delegating the task to the NUM. the NUM would be able to

handle the situation well. Enrolled nurses will not be able to complete this task as they are not
competent and so, I will not delegate them this task.
The third priority would be providing medication to the patient named Mr. Esposito.
It is not stated in the case study about the particular type of medication that needs to be
administered. Therefore, I can delegate this responsibility to an enrolled nurse who would be
able to handle the situation effectively.
The fourth priority would be handling the visitor of the patient named Mrs. Smith.
The visitor had fainted but as she is an outsider, the nursing professionals cannot treat her in
the healthcare wards. In this case, the delegation should be done to an AIN. She should stay
with the outsider where an ambulance cab be called for her. Accordingly, she should be
admitted to the emergency department and a doctor can attend her there.
The fifth priority would be delegating the work of the block toilet issue. I would be
delegating the task to the ward clerk. He would be calling for the emergency maintenance
request.
The medication error had already occurred one week ago. It had not been discussed
and addressed at that time. Therefore, I should apply my reasoning skill. As it is already late,
I should only focus on this issue after all the emergencies are tackled effectively.
Module 2
Activity 1:
1. Tribalism refers to the state of existed as the tribe or advocating for an association for a
tribe. It implies the possession of a strong culture and ethnic identity that separate a bunch of
people from the community (Southall, 2018).

2. Power inequality and tribalism influence individuals by feeding certain lies about cultural
beliefs and therefore it becomes a huge hindrance in the health care system since a majority
of the individuals refuse to take the treatment and even feel offended to take it. Therefore, a
series of holistic approaches remain unsuccessful (Weller, 2012).
3. five dimensions of the well-functioning health care system are including the improved
health of individuals, defending the population from health disease, protecting from financial
consequences of ill health, providing patient-centric care, providing effective care with
emotional well being.
Part 2:
1. The benefit of conflict suggested by the author is team uses effort to manage a conflict and
conflict enhances the sense of collaboration, interpersonal interaction. Moreover, it has an
effect on performance, creativity, innovation and potential positive outcome (Kalishman et
al., 2012).
Activity 2
1. The multidisciplinary teams communicate with each other about the fact and diseases and
the severity of the disease along with the health conditions of the patient determines the
members of the multidisciplinary team (Brown & Sherman, 2015).
2. The specialist and the neuropsychologists lead the multidisciplinary team.
3. A multidisciplinary team usually care for people with the long-term motor neurological
disease. Therefore, the main members of multidisciplinary disease are a general physician
who identifies disease first then the specialist who identify the core of the disease in the
specific clinical area. In this case, the main member will be the neurologist and occupational
therapist.