1. Briefly explain how the following legal and ethical considerations relevant to the nursing profession are applied in nursing practice in your State/Territory.
a) Children in the workplace: Children should be ensured
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1. Briefly explain how the following legal and ethical considerations relevant to the nursing profession are applied in nursing practice in your State/Territory.
a) Children in the workplace: Children should be ensured no matter what, particularly at the working environment in nursing practice. One must experience the appropriate criminal screening, rigorous screening like DSCI and Working with children check (WWCC) in nursing practice to ensure the safety of the children in South Australia.
b) International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of Ethics for Nurses (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia): Code of ethics is a bunch of ethical rules which act as a guidance to practice morally. The code traces the obligation to regard, promote and protect the fundamental rights of the individuals in a nursing profession. Code of ethics for nurses is applied similarly to everybody in the nursing profession in Australia. It features the significant administration and clinical practices that ought to be used to enhance the quality of care, obligations that should be dealt with by nurses and the qualities that nurses ought to have in their nursing practice (NMBA 2020).
c) Code of Conduct for Nurses including professional boundaries (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia): The Code of conduct for nurses arranges the legal prerequisites, professional manners and conduct anticipations for nurses in entire practice settings in Australia (NMBA 2020). As per the code of conduct, nurses must have regard for the beliefs, culture and the dignity of the person who is receiving care. Nurses ought to give sufficient and precise data identifying with their care and the medical care things.
d) Codes of practice (e.g. workplace health and safety, codes of practice or compliance codes): A Code of practice gives concrete direction to individuals who have work health and safety duty of care in the conditions depicted in the code. These codes do not supplant the WHS laws however give direction on best practice measures for specific kinds of dangers, how to accomplish the norms needed under the Act, and powerful approaches to distinguish and oversee risks (SafeWork SA n.d.). Nurses confront various dangers consistently when they are dealing with various patients. Subsequently, the codes of practice aids to escort the nurses in handling all the risks in a protected way without risking the health and safety of their patients.
e) Continuing professional education opportunities and mandatory CPD requirements for nurses: Continuing professional education gives occasions to nurses to keep up, improve just as expand the acquaintance, aptitudes and competence which could help them in building up their personal and professional qualities. CPD is significant for all experts in the medical services industry since it helps in instilling and growing new aptitudes to the nurses as a method of assisting them to stay update with the changing patterns and practices in the business. Nurses must achieve twenty hours of proceeding with specific guidance yearly to be qualified for CPD revalidation and this must be adequate to the nurse’s scope of practice (NMBA 2018).
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