The Definition Of Nursing, What The Nurse Practice Acts Say.about Delegation Part 1

This is part of what I teach when I do the leadership and management class or guest lecture. It is based on a way of conceptualizing that I got from Linda Jewell Carpenito's "Bifocal model" of nursing practice, used in many A.D.N. programs. the basic idea: don't confuse medicine with nursing, and be very clear about delegation.

I made this in 2011 when I was flirting with the idea of changing jobs ( for the record, I was offered a position at a school in Vermont but declined.) I have rewritten this description and made it public because I see a lot of faculty struggling with how to teach this. go to my blog www.joesar.wordpress.com for more info about teaching of delegation.

The factual, let's transmit-info-by-talking-fast with-PowerPoint lecture style is not what I use much any more. Face-to-face class time is best used to discuss, evaluate and confirm, and we can tiptoe to the edge of knowledge and look out into the abyss of the unknown more easily when we use teaching methods that make the person think instead of absorb. All the same, sometimes you can deliver content which allows the students to grasp the *attitude* toward the content. At UH I guest lecture on the subject of the Nurse Practice Act (NPA) each semester, and this is the beginning of what we discuss. There are always pedagogical choice to be made - It would be easy to read the definition of nursing to the students and let it go at that, but they need to be able to analyze the NPA and I like to think that breaking it down using the Venn diagram helps them to see the choices made by past nursing leaders regarding the NPA and also to predict the trends.