Nursing: Delegation of Tasks, Multidisciplinary Teams, Patient Care, and Staff Allocation

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Module 1:
As an RN, I have the responsibility to delegate relevant tasks to team members. Other
team members that can assist me in different task include the ward clerk, an EN who is
completing her IV cannulation certificate and note yet competent and an AIN.
The first priority is to attend to the needs of an elderly female post-operative patient
who has collapsed to the floor and has become unconscious. The EN must be delegated to
this patient and check her consciousness and possibility of fracture. Prioritizing this first is
important because if she is left unattended, there is risk to her life or chances of further
complications. Assessment is necessary to identify if patient need emergency treatment of
intervention (Torrance, Powell & Griffiths, 2015).
The second priority will be to attend to Mr. Esposito as he is scheduled to leave the
ward now for his cardiac catheterization. I will provide him preoperative medication as there
is no more time left and no others staffs can administer medication according to their scope of
practice
The third priority will be to resolve the toilet blockage issue as it may cause
inconvenience to other patient. The ward clerk may take on this responsibility. Meanwhile, I
can take over Mrs. Chew’s assessment of her intravenous infusion. This is important because
her IV fluids are running low and maintaining appropriate flow is responsible for patient
safety (Moritz & Ayus, 2015). As she has missed her medication, administering medication is
important too.
The fifth priority will be attend to Mr. Smith’s visitor. This responsibility can be
given to AIN who can provide emergency medical care and take the visitor to a safe place.

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The last priority will be to discuss with surgical consultants regarding medication
errors. I will handle this and the rationale for prioritizing this task at last is that the
medication error has happened last week and there are no immediate actions to be taken to
promote safety of patient.
Module 2 – Collaborative and Therapeutic Practice
Part a.
1. Factors that determine which health care professionals need to be there in a
health care team:
The involvement of different health care professionals in a multi disciplinary team
will depend on the type of disease condition for which patients need treatment. For example,
to create a multidisciplinary team for a patient with motor neurone disease, it will be
necessary to include members who have particular expertise in dealing with motor neurone
disorder such a neurologist and respiratory specialist. In addition, the health care team other
allied health professionals like nurse, dietician, social workers, physician and psychologist
(MND Australia, 2019). Secondly, the severity of a disease condition will determine the type
of health care professionals who need to collaborate with each other to deal with complex
symptoms of patient. For example, the study by Uriol Rivera et al. (2018).revealed that for
management of life threatening disease conditions like cancer, introducing multidisciplinary
team for cancer management is critical to make urgent clinical decisions and improve the
prognosis of serious disease.
2. Member who should lead the team:
Multidisciplinary team most focus on coordinated approach to care without having any
specific leader. However, in case of care delivered on a daily basis, the doctor or the general

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practitioners is the person who leads the team and coordinate activities of other team
members. Grol et al. (2018) supports that GPs take lead in building multidisciplinary health
care team. However, more recent research suggest the need for specialist nurse to take on
leading role in a multidisciplinary health care team because of their coordinating role during
the transition care process (Soukup et al., 2018).
3. Most important member of a health care team:
Patient is the most important member of a health care team as they are the biggest
stakeholder and the all the members of the health care team are involved in addressing the
needs of patient. All care priorities, interventions and delegation activities are centred around
the immediate health needs and clinical issues of patient (Frosch, 2015). Hence, unless
patient satisfaction is achieved, the goal of creating a multidisciplinary team is not fulfilled.
These reasons make patients the important part of a health care team.
Part b:
1. The key issues in the dilemma are the impact of hospitalization of mental state of
patient and the risk associated with care provided at home. It will be difficult to
decide whether mental health or physical health of patient needs to be prioritized.
According to the principle of beneficence, the best strategy should be to choose the
option that promotes patient safety as health care workers have the duty to minimize
harm and promote good towards patients (Haddad & Geiger, 2018).
2. The best outcome that will be good for Grant and his family will be allow him to
recuperate at home, where he will be surrounded by his family members and he will
not develop emotional distress because of prolonged hospitalization. Boland et al.
(2017) gives evidence regarding positive health impacts of home support
interventions of elderly patients.