Registered Nurse Role

Increasingly I am having discussions with facilities who are experiencing difficulties with Registered Nurses understanding their role.

The problems they are finding are an inability to supervise, delegate and in interpersonal relationships. It appears RN's do not understand how important it is for them to supervise caregivers and not just leave them to do their work. There is little or no follow-up.

RN's have to realise that Caregivers do not have the body of knowledge registered nurses have. They require supervison. If an RN is delegating a task they have to make sure the caregiver is actually competent to do it. Delegation by Abdication never works. You will just get more unsatisfactory care and increase RN and Managment frustration.

On top of this there a variety of cultures working in the industy. They come from a variety of value systems that are vastly different to ours and our clients. This needs to be understood and taken into consideration. So to address this, I have put a workshop together to help RN's with these tasks.

What RN's don't realise that there Practicing Certificate is at risk here. All caregiver work under RN's supervision. Are you and your Practicing Certificate safe?

For more information on this contact leigh@clinicalupdate.co.nz