Editing Management of Care – LPN Practice Questions (section)

==Question 11==
Which tasks may a licensed practical nurse appropriately delegate to an assistive personnel? '''Select all that apply.'''
# Assisting a stable client with a bed bath.
# Ambulating a stable client with a walker who has ambulated successfully with the walker before.
# Determining whether a reddened area over a client's sacrum is a stage 1 pressure injury.
# Recording the percentage of the lunch tray eaten by a client with no swallowing difficulty.
# Emptying a urinary drainage bag and recording the volume.
# Deciding whether a client is ready to be transferred from the bed to a chair for the first time after surgery.

'''Answer:''' 1, 2, 4, and 5.

''Rationale:'' Bathing, ambulating a stable client with a device the client has already used successfully, recording food intake for a client with no swallowing risk, and emptying and measuring a drainage bag are standard, unvarying tasks on stable clients that require no nursing judgment. Option 3 is staging a wound, which is an assessment. Option 6 is a judgment about readiness for a first postoperative transfer, which requires evaluation of the client's status. Assistive personnel may observe and report, such as noting that the sacrum looks red, but may not interpret findings or make care decisions.