Foundations of Professional Planning

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Foundations of Professional Planning
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An overview of the Australian Nursing Industry............................................................................2
Professional skills............................................................................................................................3
Personal skills..................................................................................................................................4
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FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PLANNING
An overview of the Australian Nursing Industry
The healthcare sector within Australia is termed as one of the largest and dynamic
industries. The healthcare sector is seen to employ 8% of the Australian workforce; wherein the
job posting accounts for 10% (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018). The Australian ageing
population is seen to grow at an increasing rate; thus the scope of mentioned industry is seen to
grow. The most important aspect within the healthcare domain are the nurses who act as primary
point of care for the patients. Hence, with the increasing rates of nursing population, it becomes
important to regulate the same through the set of following bodies (Monteverde, 2016).
The nursing profession is highly guided by the several governing bodies that sets out
policies and procedures for setting up the professional code of conduct for registered and even
practising nurses. NMBA works on guiding the midwives, in following ways in case of national
emergency (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018). NMBA works on providing a range of
information for based on regulatory policies for providing support during course of professional
practise and standards that can work on providing a clear idea about the work. NMBA is
additionally responsible for providing framework for regulatory, ethical and legal consideration
for context of practice. NMBA is additionally seen to endorse the policies about the professional
requisites during the course of disaster published by International Council of Nurses (Shirley,
2016).
ANMAC is termed to be responsible for measuring the level of skills among the
midwives and nurses for the purpose of migration. The process adopted by ANMAC is highly
methodological and comprehensive to make sure that the nurses are able to give highest
standards of care to the patients (anmac.org.au, 2018). APHRA on the other hand, is known to