Delegation, Professional
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making.

29 Nov 2009 This article discusses delegation challenges and legal and regulatory oversight associated with delegation in the clinical practice setting. The authors address moral and legal attributes of the roles and responsibilities of health care providers ... Read more...

Policy statement--guidance for the administration of medication in school.

26 Sep 2009 Many children who take medications require them during the school day. This policy statement is designed to guide prescribing health care professionals, school physicians, and school health councils on the administration of medications to children ... Read more...

Mapping the introduction of assistant practitioner roles in acute NHS (hospital) trusts in England.

29 Jun 2009 AIMS: This mapping study describes current or planned introduction of assistant practitioner roles in English National Health Service Acute Hospital Trusts. BACKGROUND: In the last decade there has been a growth in nursing support workforce numbers ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Delegation, Professional'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making. 29 Nov 2009
• Policy statement--guidance for the administration of medication in school. 26 Sep 2009
• Advice questioned. 29 Jun 2009
• Access to care: what are we going to do about it? 29 Jun 2009
• Mapping the introduction of assistant practitioner roles in acute NHS (hospital) trusts in England. 29 Jun 2009
• Automating order review is delegation, not abdication. 13 Jun 2009
• Swedish student nurses' knowledge of health statutes: a descriptive survey. 30 May 2009
• The nursing workforce in long-term care. 30 May 2009
• Role of the medical assistant. 29 Apr 2009
• [Delegation of medical responsibilities to non-medical personnel. Options and limits from a legal viewpoint] 29 Apr 2009
• Preserving advanced practice nurse role integrity: One hospital's journey. 29 Apr 2009
• [All clear for the second round? Problem of delegation of medical responsibilities--not only in anesthesia] 29 Apr 2009
• Quality of clinical photographs taken by orthodontists, professional photographers, and orthodontic auxiliaries. 29 Apr 2009
• [Task delegation in primary care: new roles to the nursing personnel in Catalunya] 30 Mar 2009
• [Family practitioners in Switzerland by 2030: which roles for medical task delegation?] 30 Mar 2009
• [Task delegation scenarios at national and regional levels of the French ambulatory care sector] 30 Mar 2009
• [A national survey on the activities performed by nurses and aids in Italian outpatients' services] 30 Mar 2009
• [4/5. Nurse/nurse's aide collaboration in drug distribution] 30 Mar 2009
• Achieving maximum success and maximum happiness. 27 Feb 2009
• The future dental workforce? 26 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Delegation, Professional'

Definition: The process of assigning duties to a subordinate with lesser qualifications.

Descriptor UI: D032022

Alternative terms: Delegation, Professional; Professional Delegation;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.374.070;

History Note: 2003