Medication Management in Residential Aged Care
Delegation & Supervision
Delegation and supervision of medication management incorporates:
- Delegating and supervising medication-related activities to appropriately qualified staff.
- Managing the activities of clinical nursing staff e.g. rostering and performance appraisal.
- Acting as a role model to less experienced nursing team members.
- Accountability for delegation decisions.
- Responding to changes in role which require increased delegation.
- Ongoing assessments of a resident's ability to self-administer medications.
Knowledge
Demonstrate an understanding of delegation and different models of delegation.
Skills
Demonstrate ability to:
- collect evidence to assess readiness to accept delegated tasks
- manage people – counseling, coaching, mentoring, preceptorship
- undertake performance appraisal
- assess competency in self and others, and
- build and maintain appropriate and efficient communication channels with team members.
