Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia: Code of Conduct and Ethics

Context of Nursing
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The Nursing and midwifery board of Australia (NMBA) has been developed and approved
by new code of conduct in regards of nurses, code of conduct for midwives. The primary role of
(NMBA) is to protect the public by ensuring all tasks should be qualified or trained by expertise.
The primary mechanism by which involves objective of medical professionals, who are not only
meet all kind of essential standards but it is also conduct their practice in accordance to The
NMBA’s standards of norms (Forrester, 2018). On the basis of Case study, it has been identified
that Jamie’s apply the legal action against the Registered Nurses, if any kind of data breach
situation occurs.
According to the code of ethics 2018 and NMBA, Registered Nurses deals with health
information of patient such as Salvatore’s. it should consider ethical approach in order to protect
or secure personal information. Nurses, midwives are always care about the individual people
who can heavily regulated by wide range of different legislation, codes and guidelines. At that
time, it can define professional standards, practices and behaviour of nurses (Lewis, 2020). As
much as nurses try to avoid such a kind of unprofessional ethics but sometimes, Breaches in
nursing ethics, depending on the certain kind of incident. It may applicable against discipline
from their state board of nursing.
According to the given scenario, Jamie's actions have breached the Nursing and midwifery
board of Australia (NMBA), but it has been described about the code of conduct for nurses. In
this ethical codes, Personal information of patient such as medical history, contact detail. If any
kind of information leaked by end of nurses, according to code of ethics. This kind of situation
will be developed the breach.
As given study, Health Records Act 2001 law use by Jamie have taken legal action if a
patient and his family complaint about misuse of health detailed. That’s why, Jamie provide full
information of code of ethics and engage with health practitioners. In order to resolve queries of
patient and his family as immediately (Lyons & Bliss, 2018).
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