Posted: March 2nd, 2022

Each student must post (1) substantial initial post with a minimum of 375 words

Being Clear Discussion
Forum Instructions
Each student must post (1) substantial initial post with a minimum of 375 words. All
posts and replies must contain at least (2) professional references, one may be the
course textbook, properly cited in the current APA format. Late discussion posts are
not accepted in this course.
The student must also reply to at least (2) classmates using a minimum of 100 words
per reply (Dont work on the student replies yet unless I provide them and tell you
to do it). Begin by paraphrasing the student colleague’s work with a minimum of two
sentences. Then, add information, correct the information, or support the information
provided. Do not respond if two students already responded to a student. The 3rd
student will not count. In addition, non-informative messages posted in the discussion
forum will not be counted towards the required number of replies for that topic.
Discussion Topic: Being Clear
You are working on a small medical admissions unit and have asked a nursing assistant
to perform vital signs and do the observations. She takes the temperature, pulse,
saturation, pain level and blood pressure of every patient on the unit, as asked.
Approximately one hour later you ask if all the observations were OK. The nursing
assistant replies that the patient in Room 9-A+ had a temperature of 39* Celsius. You
ask why she had not informed you of this immediately. She replies that it was her job to
do all the observations as you asked, and that is what she has done.
After reading the scenario, take some time to reflect on delegation, then answer
substantively to the following questions.
1. What are the principles that guide delegation to any coworker?
2. What does this scenario tell you about managing/leading people in
the clinical setting?
3. What does this tell you about the need to understand what we do
and why?
4. Is there a place for understanding the values of care in this
scenario?