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CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT

UTAH NURSING ASSISTANT REGISTRY

SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

A nursing assistant may provide care in many health care areas while under the supervision of a licensed nurse.

As a Certified Nursing Assistant you must follow certain legal, ethical and moral standards.

Unprofessional conduct may result in disciplinary action on your CNA certificate and includes, but is not limited to:

1. Failing to follow policies and procedures at your place of employment 2. Documenting false information on a patient’s chart

3. Taking away a patient’s rights

4. Abandoning a resident; leaving an assignment that has been accepted, without notifying the appropriate authority and allowing reasonable time for replacement; -leaving your shift before you are done or refusing to show up for your shift or quitting without notice

5. Physical Abuse 6. Verbal Abuse 7. Sexual abuse

8. Stealing a resident’s property 9. Stealing a resident’s medications 10. Illegal drug use

11. Accepting money from a resident 12. Threatening a resident

13. Engaging in CNA practice while using a false name 14. Allowing another person to use your certification

You should be competent in all basic nursing skills. This is considered your

scope of duties or responsibilities, the skills that you were taught in your state

approved Certified Nursing Assistant program. Normally you would not do anything outside of these skills.

In the state of Utah, there is a Nurse Practice Act in which a licensed nurse may

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It is very long and you may not really understand all the language, but the point being is that you do not do anything that you are not trained to do or know how to do. You must be competent at any skill that you perform.

To sum up the delegatio n of tasks:

1. Do not do anything that you are not trained to do

(certain facilities may require extra training for the

job they want you to do)

2. Do not do anything that you do not feel

comfortable performing

3. Do not do anything without the proper supervision

4. Do not do anything that requires nursing judgment

5. Do not do anything that requires an assessment

6. Do not do anything that you do not know how to

do, even if the skill was part of your CNA training.

7. Do not do anything that you are not competent to

do.

If you have any questions, please call the UNAR at

801-547-9947

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Nurse Practice Act

R156-31b-701. Delegation of Nursing Tasks.

In accordance with Subsection 58-31b-102(14) (g), the delegation of nursing tasks is further defined, clarified, or established as follows:

(1) The nurse delegating tasks retains the accountability for the appropriate delegation of tasks and for the nursing care of the patient. The licensed nurse shall not delegate any task requiring the specialized knowledge, judgment and skill of a licensed nurse to an unlicensed assistive

personnel. It is the licensed nurse who shall use professional judgment to decide whether or not a task is one that must be performed by a nurse or may be delegated to an unlicensed assistive personnel. This precludes a list of nursing tasks that can be routinely and uniformly delegated for all patients in all situations. The decision to delegate must be based on careful analysis of the patient's needs and circumstances.

(2) The licensed nurse who is delegating a nursing task shall: (a) verify and evaluate the orders;

(b) perform a nursing assessment, including an assessment of:

(i) the patient's nursing care needs including, but not limited to, the complexity and frequency of the nursing care, stability of the

patient, and degree of immediate risk to the patient if the task is not carried out;

(ii) the delegatee's knowledge, skills, and abilities after training has been provided;

(iii) the nature of the task being delegated including the degree of complexity, irreversibility, predictability of outcome, and potential for harm;

(iv) the availability and accessibility of resources, including

appropriate equipment, adequate supplies, and other appropriate health care personnel to meet the patient's nursing care needs; and (v) the availability of adequate supervision of the delegatee. (c) act within the area of the nurse's responsibility;

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(e) determine whether the task can be safely performed by a delegatee or whether it requires a licensed health care provider;

(f) determine that the task being delegated is a task that a reasonable and prudent nurse would find to be within generally accepted nursing practice; (g) determine that the task being delegated is an act consistent with the health and safety of the patient;

(h) verify that the delegatee has the competence to perform the

delegated task prior to performing it;

(i) provide instruction and direction necessary to safely perform the specific task; and

(j) provide ongoing supervision and evaluation of the delegatee who

is performing the task;

(k) explain the delegation to the delegatee and that the delegated task is limited to the identified patient within the identified time frame;

(l) instruct the delegatee how to intervene in any foreseeable risks that may be associated with the delegated task; and

(m) if the delegated task is to be performed more than once, establish a system for ongoing monitoring of the delegatee.

(3) The delegator shall evaluate the situation to determine the degree of supervision required to ensure safe care.

(a) The following factors shall be evaluated to determine the level of

supervision needed:

(i) the stability of the condition of the patient;

(ii) the training, capability, and willingness of the delegatee to perform the delegated task;

(iii) the nature of the task being delegated; and

(iv) the proximity and availability of the delegato r to the delegatee when the task will be performed.

(b) The delegating nurse or another qualified nurse shall be readily

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responsible for the care of the patient shall make supervisory visits at appropriate intervals to:

(i) evaluate the patient's health status;

(ii) evaluate the performance of the delegated task; (iii) determine whether goals are being met; and

(iv) determine the appropriateness of continuing delegation of the task.

(4) Nursing tasks, to be delegated, shall meet the following criteria as

applied to each specific patient situation:

(a) be considered routine care for the specific patient/client; (b) pose little potential hazard for the patient/client;

(c) be performed with a predictable outcome for the patient/client; (d) be administered according to a previously developed plan of care; and

(e) not inherently involve nursing judgment which cannot be separated from the procedure.

(5) If the nurse, upon review of the patient's condition, complexity of the task, ability of the proposed delegatee and other criteria as deemed appropriate by the nurse, determines that the proposed delegatee cannot safely provide the

requisite care, the nurse shall not delegate the task to such proposed delegatee. (a) A delegatee shall not further delegate to another person the tasks delegated by the delegator; and

(b) the delegated task may not be expanded by the delegatee without the express permission of the delegator.

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