The 5 rights of delegation serve to guide appropriate transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity or task to another person. These "rights" are defined as having the right task, right circumstance, right person, right direction/communication, and right supervision/evaluation.

Now, when decision-making, a model that you can use to guide your process is the DECIDE model, which stands for: Define, Establish, Consider, Identify, Develop, and Evaluate.

An example is patient triage: when a nurse must decide which of several needy patients requires immediate attention. That decision may depend on where the nurse can do the most good, or where the need is greatest, depending on the nurse's determination of the most just course of action.

The Nursing Assessment Decision Grid was developed by Conger (1993) to teach delegation decision making. It consists of a series of guided steps to analyze nursing tasks and patient problems inherent in a patient situation.

The DECIDE model is the acronym of 6 particular activities needed in the decision-making process: (1) D = define the problem, (2) E = establish the criteria, (3) C = consider all the alternatives, (4) I = identify the best alternative, (5) D = develop and implement a plan of action, and (6) E = evaluate and monitor the ...

Delegation means giving someone in the group explicit authority over making a decision, often with some guardrails. One of the greatest leadership traits you can develop is removing yourself from the decision making process.

For example, a nurse that is competent in applying a condom catheter may determine this to be an appropriate task to delegate to an nAi; whereas a nurse who has never provided colostomy care would not be appropriate to delegate this task to an nAii.