January 1, 2009
Does your staff understand delegation?
An RN is circulating on a case when near the end, the surgeon hands the scrub technician a suture and tells her to close the wound. In another situation, the next case requires medications to be drawn up, and the surgical technologist (ST) offers to do this while the RN goes to get the next patient.
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