School Nurse Delegation During a Pandemic
Keeping Students Safe, School Health Improved, and Licenses Intact
By Ruth Hansten RN MBA PhD FACHE
As if you don’t have enough to attend to with contact tracing, ever-changing mask mandates and distancing rules, COVID testing, vaccinations, and school sanitation/ventilation challenges, you may have missed that the NCSBN (National Council of State Boards of Nursing) changed the delegation definition in 2016 and collaborated with the ANA (American Nurses Association) for a new Joint Statement on Delegation in 2019. You may also be unaware of the impact of national and state emergency declarations, altered state role definitions, interstate rules relaxation, and how to work effectively with those well-intentioned retirees and volunteers. All these issues have further challenged your ability to keep students healthy through delegating to others during this pandemic.
Attend my webinar at the ASN Convention and answer these questions:
- What are the 5 Rights that I should follow to keep my license safe?
- What are the responsibilities and accountabilitiesof those to whom I delegate?
- What should I do if the school administrator (my boss) delegates health activities?
- When there is a field trip across state lines, how can I keep medically fragile students safe?
We hope you will join us for the Delegation CE during the ASN Convention in June!
References:
American Nurses Association (ANA) and National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2019). National Guidelines for Nursing Delegation. from http://www.ncsbn.org/NCSBN_Delegation_Guidelines.pdfhttps://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nursing-excellence/official-position-statements/id/joint-statement-on-delegation-by-ANA-and-NCSBN/
Bobo, N. (2018). Nursing delegation to unlicensed assistive personnel in the school setting: Principles for practice. 2ndEdition. Silver Spring, MD. National Association of School Nurses.
Brent N. (2015). Legally Speaking: School Nurses and Emergency Care. Nurse.com Blog. 9/21/2015. https://www.nurse.com/blog/2015/09/21/legally-speaking-school-nurses-and-emergency-care/
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