All of this information is found in the PowerPoint presentations and assigned readings. You must be prepared to discuss this information during the synchronous class session. Format your submission: LastnameFirstinitial_Class1_WYSK.doc or .pdf
Take time and prepare these notes carefully (use a different color for responses, for example). You are building a comprehensive study guideyou can build on these notes in class to supplement and enhance your learning.
Class 1 Week 1: What you should know
- What is the definition of time management and what is included in someone who optimizes their time management?
- What are the major symptoms related to poor time management?
- What are the three basic evaluation steps into planning so that reprioritization can occur?
- Identify 5 relevant interventions that can be taken to mitigate internal/external time-wasting activities?
- Identify daily planning actions that can be taken to maximize time management?
- Describe the priority setting in clinical settings where decisions need to be made for patient care (As in ATI)
- Name three ways nurses establish priorities in nursing practice (as in ATI)
- Define and describe Time Management as a cyclic process
Class 2 Week 1: What you should know
- Identify specific strategies for successful delegation
- What does the NPA (Nurse practice act) contain as the essential elements regarding delegation (as in ATI)
- Describe the 5 rights of delegationname them and define them
- Provide an example of each of the 5 rights of delegation
- Describe the criteria for delegation to an unlicensed assisted personnel (UAP)
- Name 5 tasks that are generally considered appropriate for delegation to UAPs
- Describe the reasons nurses will underdelegate tasks.
- Describe the situations in which nurses will overdelegate tasks
- Draw the decision tree created by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) that is used to determine appropriate tasks for UAPs(apply the example of obtaining a blood sugar value to this model to determine if that would be an appropriate task to delegate)
- Name the key differences between what roles and responsibilities exist for RNs and contrast that with those of LPNs
