A Staff Nurse Delegates a Task to a Nursing Assistive

A staff nurse delegates a task to a nursing assistive personnel (NAP) , knowing that the NAP has never performed the task before. As a result, the patient is injured, and the nurse defensively states that the NAP should have known how to perform such a simple task. Which element of the decision-making process is the nurse lacking?

A) Authority
B) Autonomy
C) Responsibility
D) Accountability

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