Health Medical Homework Help

You are the nurse caring for a postoperative appendectomy patient who had surgery 6 hours ago. The following tasks need completing:

• Assess the patient’s ability to drink clear liquids.
• Determine the amount eaten.
• Document the patient’s tolerance of clear liquids.
• Assess the patient’s tolerance for sitting at the side of the bed.
• Assess the patient’s tolerance for ambulating.
• Document the patient’s tolerance for activity.
• Assess the patient’s pain level.
• Provide education about activity levels.

1) Which of the tasks can be delegated, and to whom can they be delegated? Please carefully consider your responses and read the assigned materials BEFORE posting. 

2) To whom could the tasks be delegated if your co-workers included the following: licensed practical nurse, medication aide and nursing assistant?

3) Select one of the tasks and develop an outcome. How would you evaluate the ability of the patient to achieve the outcome if the task was delegated to the appropriate person?