Delegation is a process of responsibilities and duties dispensation among the workers of a particular organization or a company. Nursing practice requires some extra attention to this part of the occupation. Delegation is an essential quality that leaders should obtain in order to organize a productive working process, which is to be discussed below.
Work in a Team
There are millions of hospitals all over the world, and it is almost impossible to take good care of patients without professional nurses. They are supposed to have leadership qualities in order to delegate rights and duties among their colleagues. All the work in a particular department is a nurse’s responsibility – everyone may delegate how he or she wants, but the working process has to be efficient (Tompkins, 2016). When one moves into a leadership or management role, the whole organizational process might change because every person has his or her own image of a perfect team work.
Delegator qualities
A person who delegates has to see all the process that is going on in one’s department, instead of concentrating his or her attention on one patient or worker. The delegation also requires trust and respect for a leader or a manager, otherwise, no one will have the desire to follow his or her delegations. A nurse is obligated to know the basis of work in a team to help his or her patients properly.
Another important quality of a delegator is to understand the number of patients that one is responsible for (Yoon, Kim, & Shin, 2016). For instance, one may be delegating duties among a certain number of colleagues, without paying attention to individual cases of patients. Some of them might need more care and attention than others do. Therefore, an equal amount of work does not always correspond to the equal number of patients.
References
Tompkins, F. (2016). Delegation in correctional nursing practice. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 22(3), 218-224.
Yoon, J., Kim, M., & Shin, J. (2016). Confidence in delegation and leadership of registered nurses in long-term-care hospitals. Journal of Nursing Management, 24(5), 676-685.