{"id":60,"date":"2021-07-27T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/chapter\/iii-glossary\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:41:05","slug":"iii-glossary","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accnursing2030\/chapter\/iii-glossary\/","title":{"raw":"III Glossary","rendered":"III Glossary"},"content":{"raw":"Accountability:<\/strong> Being answerable to oneself and others for one\u2019s own choices, decisions, and actions as measured against a standard.\n\nAssignment:<\/strong> Routine care, activities, and procedures that are within the authorized scope of practice of the RN, LPN\/VN, or routine functions of the assistive personnel.\n\nClosed-loop communication:<\/strong> A process that enables the person giving the instructions to hear what they said reflected back and to confirm that their message was, in fact, received correctly.\n\nConstructive feedback:<\/strong> Supportive feedback that offers solutions to areas of weakness.\n\nDelegated responsibility: <\/strong>A\u00a0nursing activity, skill, or procedure that is transferred from a license nurse to a delegatee.\n\nDelegatee:<\/strong> An RN, LPN\/VN, or AP who is delegated a nursing responsibility by either an APRN, RN, or LPN\/VN who is competent to perform the task and verbally accepts the responsibility.\n\nDelegation:<\/strong> Allowing a delegatee to perform a specific nursing activity, skill, or procedure that is beyond the delegatee\u2019s traditional role but in which they have received additional training.\n\nDelegator:<\/strong> An APRN, RN, or LPN\/VN who requests a specially trained delegatee to perform a specific nursing activity, skill, or procedure that is beyond the delegatee\u2019s traditional role.\n\nFive rights of delegation:<\/strong> Right task, right circumstance, right person, right directions and communication, and right supervision and evaluation.\n\nNursing team members:<\/strong> Advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), registered nurses (RN), licensed practical\/vocational nurses (LPN\/VN), and assistive personnel (AP).\n\nScope of practice:<\/strong> Procedures, actions, and processes that a health care practitioner is permitted to undertake in keeping with the terms of their professional license.\n\nSupervision<\/strong>: Appropriate monitoring of the delegated activity, evaluation of patient outcomes, and follow-up with the delegatee at the completion of the activity.\n\nTitrate:<\/strong> Making adjustments to medication dosage per an established protocol to obtain a desired therapeutic outcome.\n\nUnlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP):<\/strong> Any assistive personnel trained to function in a supportive role, regardless of title, to whom a nursing responsibility may be delegated. This includes, but is not limited to, certified nursing assistants or aides (CNAs), patient-care technicians (PCTs), certified medical assistants (CMAs), certified medication aides, and home health aides.[footnote]American Nurses Association and NCSBN. (2019). National guidelines for nursing delegation<\/em>. https:\/\/www.ncsbn.org\/NGND-PosPaper_06.pdf<\/a>[\/footnote]<\/sup>","rendered":"

Accountability:<\/strong> Being answerable to oneself and others for one\u2019s own choices, decisions, and actions as measured against a standard.<\/p>\n

Assignment:<\/strong> Routine care, activities, and procedures that are within the authorized scope of practice of the RN, LPN\/VN, or routine functions of the assistive personnel.<\/p>\n

Closed-loop communication:<\/strong> A process that enables the person giving the instructions to hear what they said reflected back and to confirm that their message was, in fact, received correctly.<\/p>\n

Constructive feedback:<\/strong> Supportive feedback that offers solutions to areas of weakness.<\/p>\n

Delegated responsibility: <\/strong>A\u00a0nursing activity, skill, or procedure that is transferred from a license nurse to a delegatee.<\/p>\n

Delegatee:<\/strong> An RN, LPN\/VN, or AP who is delegated a nursing responsibility by either an APRN, RN, or LPN\/VN who is competent to perform the task and verbally accepts the responsibility.<\/p>\n

Delegation:<\/strong> Allowing a delegatee to perform a specific nursing activity, skill, or procedure that is beyond the delegatee\u2019s traditional role but in which they have received additional training.<\/p>\n

Delegator:<\/strong> An APRN, RN, or LPN\/VN who requests a specially trained delegatee to perform a specific nursing activity, skill, or procedure that is beyond the delegatee\u2019s traditional role.<\/p>\n

Five rights of delegation:<\/strong> Right task, right circumstance, right person, right directions and communication, and right supervision and evaluation.<\/p>\n

Nursing team members:<\/strong> Advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), registered nurses (RN), licensed practical\/vocational nurses (LPN\/VN), and assistive personnel (AP).<\/p>\n

Scope of practice:<\/strong> Procedures, actions, and processes that a health care practitioner is permitted to undertake in keeping with the terms of their professional license.<\/p>\n

Supervision<\/strong>: Appropriate monitoring of the delegated activity, evaluation of patient outcomes, and follow-up with the delegatee at the completion of the activity.<\/p>\n

Titrate:<\/strong> Making adjustments to medication dosage per an established protocol to obtain a desired therapeutic outcome.<\/p>\n

Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP):<\/strong> Any assistive personnel trained to function in a supportive role, regardless of title, to whom a nursing responsibility may be delegated. This includes, but is not limited to, certified nursing assistants or aides (CNAs), patient-care technicians (PCTs), certified medical assistants (CMAs), certified medication aides, and home health aides.[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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