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Delegating Tasks Of A Nursing Assistant

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I have similar experiences while delegating the tasks the nursing assistant. Once I had a patient with a Jackson Pratt (jp) drainage valve from her surgical site. The patient’s jp was getting full frequently. There was a nursing assistant who floated from another floor. I asked her if she knows how to empty the jp. She said she knew it. So, I told her to empty the jp and record output when I went to my lunch break. After lunch break, when I went to assess the patient I found out that she emptied the jp, however, she did not squeeze it to close the clamp. That’s why the JP Valve was empty. Because with jp, we need to squeeze it prior closing, so it would create vacuum and drain the body fluid. Later on, I thought I did not properly delegate

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