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Assignment: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel

Assignment: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel

Assignment: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel

NOW FOR AN ORIGINAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT:Assignment: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel

What are the six actions that should be taken to create a national and/or state policy agenda about the educational preparation of unlicensed assistive personnel and the competencies they should have for safe practice?2. The need in health care today is for today’s nurses to have highly developed delegation skills in working effectively and efficiently with unlicensed assistive personnel. This is critical to ensure the clients’ needs are met and their safety is not jeopardized. What are the key general principles that the nurse manager needs to review with professional registered nurses in delegating to unlicensed assistive personnel?

Chapter 8 Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and the Registered Nurse

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Terminology

Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) includes

Nurse aides, nurse extenders

Health care aides

Technicians

Patient care technicians

Orderlies

Assistants or attendants

Nursing assistive personnel (NAP): replacement term by ANA in 2007

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Motivation to Use UAP

Arguments

Maximize human resources: free professional nurses from tasks and assignments not requiring independent thinking and professional judgment (nonnursing tasks and functions)

Cost savings: conflicting findings in research

Controversy

UAP are not supplements but replacements of professional RN staff

Variation in scope of practice and lack of minimum educational and training requirements

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Top Reasons for Being Pulled Away from Patient Care

Documenting information in multiple locations

Completing logs, checklists, and other unnecessary paperwork/data collection

Filling out regulatory documentation

Entering/reviewing orders

Walking to equipment/supply areas, utility rooms, etc.

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Educational Requirements

OBRA regulations for certified nurse’s aides

Minimum of 75 hours of state-approved theory and practice

Successful completion of competency exam in both areas

Most UAP training in employing facility with no formal certification

Formal training at vocational schools and community colleges; focus on long-term care; certification only to meet state requirements

Education for acute care settings facility-based; no required educational standards or guidelines

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