Chapter 4

Question 1

Accountable

Answer 1

To answer to one’s self and others about his or her choices, decisions, and actions

Question 2

Delegate

Answer 2

To authorize or direct a nursing assistant to perform a nursing task

Question 3

Delegated Nursing Responsibility

Answer 3

A nursing task that a nurse transfers to a nursing assistant when it does not require a nurse’s professional knowledge or judgement

Question 4

Delegation

Answer 4

The process a nurse uses to direct a nursing assistant to perform a nursing task; allowing a nursing assistant to perform a nursing responsibility that is beyond the nursing assistant’s usual role and not routinely done by the nursing assistant

Question 5

Nursing Task

Answer 5

Nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, skill, or activity

Question 6

Routine Nursing Task

Answer 6

A nursing task that is part of a nursing assistant’s routine job description and commonly assigned to the nursing assistant; a nursing task that was learned in a nursing assistant training competency evaluation program (NATCEP)