The correlation between consistency of care givers and delegation potential (the amount of nursing care that can legally and safely be assigned to a non-professional staff member) is explored in the Work Complexity Assessment (WCA) Program. WCA is a consultant-led process, developed by Tom Ingalls and licensed through Creative Health Care Management; it helps define and quantify various levels of care complexity based on the knowledge and skill required to perform the work. The delegation potential is based on whatcould be delegated rather than on traditional delegation practices that are often task based. WCA uses the three scenarios (three different ways of assigning personnel) to determine the delegation potential and examine the impact of staffing schedules and methods of patient assignment on delegation. The three scenarios, namely unit based, pairing, and partnering, vary in the amount of time in which nurses and other personnel work the same shifts and care for the same patients (Koloroutis, 2004). Each scenario is described below.