Patient Management and Delegation Essay

Patient Management and Delegation Essay

Complete the Patient Management and Delegation virtual simulation activity which can be found by clicking the Enter Simulation link at the top of the course. From the menu that appears select Virtual Clinical Scenarios and then click Patient Management Delegation. Then debrief on the experience by creating a VoiceThread, video or a written essay.

Reflect on your feelings while fulling the role of the charge nurse in the simulated activities on delegation and caseload management. Consider how you utilized the experience and efficiency information provided.
Summarize the responsibilities, including planning, coordinating and evaluation of nursing resources, managed by the charge nurse in the simulated activity.
Reflect on any correct and incorrect decisions and responses that you would change if you were to repeat this activity.
Describe what you learned in this experience that will be incorporated into your clinical practice.
References are not required for this reflection. APA format is required for page set up for essay or PowerPoint.

Examples of work to show mastery:

3-4 page paper – APA format

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.