A nurse working on a surgery floor is assigned five pts and has a pt care technician assisting her. Which of the following shows the nurse's understanding and ability to safely delegate to the pt care tech?
1) The nurse considers the time available to gather routine vital signs on one pt before checking on a second pt arriving from a diagnostic test.
2) Determining what is the pt care technician's current workload.
3) The nurse chooses to delegate the measurement of a stable pt's vital signs and not the assessment of the pt arriving from a diagnostic test.
4) The nurse reviews with the NAP, newly hired to the floor, her experience in measuring a blood pressure.
5) 5. The nurse confers with another registered nurse about organizing priorities.