An RN team leader has one LPN and one medical assistant assigned to the unit. Which patient would be most appropriate to assign to the LPN?

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Licensed practical nurses can implement actions specific to the patient care needs. Monitoring the stroke patient and maintaining the continuous feeding is an appropriate delegation. LPNs can also collect data, perform basic teaching, record data as well as interventions, and report to the RNs the progress the patient is making. The patient one-day post-op from the right lower lobectomy, the patient with the hip replacement, and the patient with the appendectomy are inappropriate to delegate to a LPN because each requires a focused assessment, advanced interventions, evaluation, and updating of the patients' plans of care and outcome priorities.

An RN Team Leader Has One LPN and One Medical