What can be delegated to Assistive personnel (AP)?

- - ADLs - bathing - grooming - dressing - ambulating - feeding (w/o swallow

precautions) - positioning - bed making - specimen collection - I&O - VS (stable

clients

A nurse on a med surge unit has recieved change of shift report and will care for 4

clients. Which of the following clients needs will the nurse assign to an AP?

A. Feeding a client who was admitted 24 hours ago with aspiration pneumonia

B. Reinforcing teaching with a client who is learning to walk with a quad cane

C. Reapplying a condom catheter for a client who has urinary incontinence

D. Applying a sterile dressing to a pressure ulcer - C

A nurse is delegating the ambulation of a client who had knee arthroplasty 5 days

ago to an AP. Which of the following info should the nurse share with the AP?

Select all:

A. the roommate is up independently

B. The client ambulates with his slippers on over his antiembolic stockings

C. The client uses a front wheeled walker when ambulating

D. The client had pain meds 30 minutes ago

E. The client is allergic to codeine

F. the client ate 50 % of his breakfast this morning - B

C

D

An RN is making assignments for client care to an LPN at the beginning of the

shift. Which of the following assignments should the LPN question?

A. Assisting a client who is 24 hr postop to use an incentive spirometer

B. Collecting a clean catch urine specimen from a client who was admitted on the

previous shift

C. providing nasopharyngeal suctioning for a client who has pneumonia

D. Replacing the cartridge and tubing on a PCA pump - D