Apply legal & Ethical Parameters to Nursing Practice : Assignment

Apply Legal And Ethical
Parameters
To Nursing Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
1. Define legal and regulatory Acts or guidelines that impacts nursing practices including
relevant penalties.........................................................................................................................4
2. Implementation of domains, principles and values that are established by Nursing and
Midwifery board of Australia......................................................................................................5
3.a) Response to complaint made by the resident.......................................................................5
b) Legal obligation of the case....................................................................................................5
c) Person to be notified in the first instance................................................................................6
d) Way of notifying or report this person....................................................................................6
e) Requirement of maintaining patient's privacy and confidentiality while reporting the
incident........................................................................................................................................6
4. Describe given laws in nursing practices and potential consequences of breaching them.....6
5.a) Shelly's duty of care and relevant breach.............................................................................7
b) Legal requirements of using restraint.....................................................................................7
c) Person responsible for vicariously negligence regarding fall of patient.................................7
6. Progress notes of the patient...................................................................................................7
7.a) Determine the concept of ethics in context of selected patient and his family....................8
b) Things to be considered while communication with patient and family................................8
c) Ethical issue and potential ethical dilemmas take place.........................................................8
d) Determine ethical problems and way to manage them...........................................................8
e) Way of supporting patient in their decision and wish to live..................................................8
f) ''Not for resuscitation'' order....................................................................................................8
8. Describe the problem and how & why it may cause of moral or ethical dilemma for staff...9
9. a) Principles and processes of open disclosure of the scenario...............................................9
b) Roles of another professionals in open disclosure................................................................10
10. Latest version of Acts, standards and legislation................................................................10
11. EEO and its implementation in practices............................................................................10
12. 'Recency of practice' and types of evidence required..........................................................11

13. How many continuous professionals development points/hours required to maintain
Enrolled Nurse Registration......................................................................................................11
14. Create diagram of Australian court system.........................................................................12
17. Explain role of Power of Attorney, Living Wills and Life Prolonging Treatments...........14
18. a) Human rights to access healthcare..................................................................................14
b) National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards 2017...............................14
19. Direct & indirect discrimination and its impacts................................................................15
20. Requirement of Enrolled nurses for remaining aware about existence of social media
policies......................................................................................................................................15
21. Need of PII under Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act................................16
22. 3 things essential in application submitted by an Enrolled Nurse......................................16
23. Ensuring safety of visitors including children....................................................................17
24.a) How the own upbringing influenced beliefs....................................................................17
b) How do you think it will influence your response to situations requiring ethical decision
making?.....................................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Legal & ethical parameters refers to relevant rules and policies that must be followed for
increasing patient outcomes. It includes ethical principles and legislations that provide support to
conduct clinical practices in effective as well as efficient manner. However, there are several
ethical principles which facilitate to avoid chance of occurring complex situations and condition
of drug errors by medical professionals in healthcare sector (Arnold and Boggs, 2019).
Moreover, legal rules & regulations are helpful for medical practitioners to put efforts in correct
direction in order to provide appropriate medication or treatment to people for making them well
being. Meanwhile, it is essential for care professionals to obey ethical and legal parameters
which facilitates to achieve better outcomes of nursing practices in health & social care. The
present report will focus on legal & regulatory guidelines affects nursing practices, domains &
principles set by Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia and breach of several laws. It will
focus on moral or ethical dilemma for staff regarding certain aspects, latest version of various
Acts, standards & legislations and description of EEO with techniques of applying the same. The
recency of practice, continuous professional development and human right to access healthcare is
explained here. Furthermore, direct & indirection discrimination, PII requirements and
components of application submitted by an Enrolled nurse is given below.
MAIN BODY
1. Define legal and regulatory Acts or guidelines that impacts nursing practices including
relevant penalties
Legal & regulatory guidelines impacts positively on nursing practices of followed
appropriately. These legal instructions are mandatory because they direct efforts of medical
professionals in correct direction which facilitate to improve patient outcomes. However, it
consist number of aspects such as Guardianship, Advocacy, Defamation, Battery, Trespass,
Functions of the coroner, Autonomy, non-maleficence & beneficence, Justice, Veracity and
Bioethics (Baillie and Black, 2014). In addition to this, it is necessary for care professionals to
focus on mentioned ethical principles and regulatory guidelines because avoiding them is
considered as a legal offence for which their superior of client can take legal action against them.
Meanwhile, it has been analysed that obeying these aspects is beneficial for providing better
outcomes for a sick person in health & social care. At the other hand, care professionals who

ignore these legal instructions they can face strict legal and official actions like their licence will
be cancelled along with termination from their professional position. Moreover, these
practitioners have to pay a huge amount of money as a penalty or may face years of prison in
case of avoiding legal requirements accordingly.
2. Implementation of domains, principles and values that are established by Nursing and
Midwifery board of Australia
The domains, principles and values set by Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia in
fulfil several aspects such as practise legally including legal compliance, practice safely,
effectively & collaboratively considering person centred practice and cultural practice &
respectful relationships. It also includes care standards to Act with professional integrity
consisting professional behaviour and Promote health and well-being of people (Billings and
Halstead, 2015). However, it includes communicating about general public about standards
which can be expect Enrolled nurse (EN) and identify an eligibility criteria registration of
individuals who have completed an EN program. In addition to this, EN are required to perform
under indirect and direct supervision of registered nurse for providing proper care to patients.
Meanwhile, an enrolled nurse should focus on their roles and responsibilities along with
remaining responsible for their attempted criterion or actions. Meanwhile, an EN can be
considered for accountable in giving delegated care to an individual. Moreover, it is necessary
for EN to remain focussed towards actual requirements and comfort level of patients in terms of
providing person centred care for making them well being.
3.a) Response to complaint made by the resident
In case of resident's complaint, it is necessary to make an individual feeling relaxed by
making him understand to solve his problem as soon as possible. It is required to report this
incident to respective authority without disclosing person's name to sort out the issue to improve
their comfort level (Blažun, Kokol and Vošner, 2015).
b) Legal obligation of the case
The legal obligation in given case is to compliant about assaulter practitioner to
authorities of hospital and if ignored then put complain to legal organisations for respective
actions to save resident.