Competency Assessing for Nurses (Delegated Tasks)

This full day course gives Registered Nurses the necessary confidence, toolkits and paperwork / documentation to enable them to assess competence within their own teams, for example care workers and senior care workers and others providing delegated tasks.

Course Length. 7 hours

Introduction

Registered Nurses may wish to delegate the delivery of clinical tasks to competent and confident care staff who have been suitably trained and supervised.  Our Competency Assessing for Nurses 1-day course gives Nurses the skills, confidence, ability and trusted documentation to be able to do this within their own scope of competence.

Course Contents

What is a delegated clinical task?
What do the RCN and NMC say about delegated tasks and what are their guidelines?
The Royal College of Nursing’s “Accountability and Delegation – A Guide for the Nursing Team”
Ensuring own skill is maintained and certificated
Delegated tasks and Best Interest Decisions
Who will be accountable?
Getting the wording right
Sample documentation

EWS can assist with the development of an organisation’s own Delegation Template, if required, and can provide model documentation based on good practice.

Course Outcomes

Successful completion of this training course will result in the award of a CPD accredited certificate covering all aspects of the above course contents.