Health of Infant, Children and Youth: Strategies for Promoting Health and Ensuring Safety

This essay analyzes the recent researches, which describes, the strategy of Australia to reduce the risk of future health issues within the framework of health promotions, risk, safety and risk management. The early health habits of the children provide the base for their future health and wellbeing. Health hazards in the childhood and the adolescence may affect the health of their independent adulthood. They will also can be changed in their social life for their health issues.

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This essay analyses the recent researches, which describes, the strategy of Australia to
reduce the risk of future health issues within the framework of health promotions, risk, safety
and risk management. The early health habits of the children provide the base for their future
health and wellbeing. Health hazards in the childhood and the adolescence may affect the
health of their independent adulthood. They will also can be changed in their social life for
their health issues. In the following paragraphs, it is explained the strategies to keep the
future hazards away and how legal cultural and ethical factors contribute in this strategy
under standard two. The main criteria that is under focus in this article is the effective
communication. The article also discusses the role of a registered nurse with the reference of
NMBA (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia) Registered Nurse Standard for Practice
(Betancourt et al. 2016).
The Australian government is always on the surge to find strategies to ensure a better
future for its citizens. In order to provide promising health to the children and young adults,
the government supplied with various kind of plans within the framework of health
promotions, risk, quality and risk management (Foster et al. 2015). The recent research
supports that by using all these strategies, the government is achieving its target towards the
promising health of its citizen. The Australia Health Promotion Association (AHPA) main
governing body for health promotions in Australia. They ensure that the health promotions
obey the Ottawa charter and everyone can understand the motive of these promotions and
they can be aware of their health concerns. The health promotions are committed to the
ethical practice of supporting culturally informed and safe practice; health equity; innovative
and evidence-informed approaches and collaboration. The quality of the healthcare industry
means the best possible outcomes of the healthcare industry and safety defines as the risk
reduction. The quality and the safety is interlinked, to increase the quality risks need to be
reduced. The risk management for reducing risk and providing safety and quality of the

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treatment involves, the health care workers need to address the issues and supports the causes
that can cause a compromise in patient's safety. The systems required to be checked regularly
to reduce the risk of any patient health due to any system failure. Reporting an event that may
lead to escalation can assure the quality improvement of the medical practice (Wildevuur and
Simonse 2015).
Keeping the ethical, legal and cultural values of the children and the young adult in
mind can increase the healthcare quality of any medical care centre under the consent of
children and young people. The children, unlike adults, do not develop in the separation.
They are habituated to live with family members and thus that provide them with cultural
values. They are easily influenced by behaviour and communication ways of the adults. It is
difficult to draw any relationship between the cultural and religious considerations of one's
life with their healthcare service, but a children’s good health can be considered easily
influenced by such factors. Children develop their ability of identifying the positive person,
complicatedly based on the bonding of dependent and interdependent relationships with their
guardian and family. It also includes their cultural and religious values. It is very unrealistic
and unhelpful to not consider these factors in the healthcare of the young patients. Australian
government evaluated some carefully judged legislations for the health care of the children
and young people (O'hagan et al. 2014). There are several acts such as the Code of Health
and Disability Services Consumers rights, Health (immunization) Regulations, Privacy Act
and The Health Information Privacy Code and Mental Health Act. All these acts ensure
proper and safe treatment of the children and the young adults. These acts assure that the
choices of the children can get enough attention and if the young and the children think that
there is a breach of this law, he or she can complain about this. Immunised law guarantees
that all children should have their immunized certificate to show that they are safe for the
other children of the society (Reed, Fitzgerald and Bish 2015). A medical officer checks the

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certificate to confirm the safety of the area. Protection of the informations of the children are
under the protection of the privacy act, without the consent of the patient, sharing of any
knowledge is under the direct violence of the law and it is severely punishable. People
suffering from mental disorders are under the mental health act to ensure a specific set of the
treatment procedure that is set for them. Ethical codes of Australia provide the fundamental
standards and values to which the healthcare industry is dedicated. Information management
is one of the primary ethical concern of the country, and the healthcare centre approaches a
safe and healthy ethical approach towards all the patients (Scanlon et al. 2016).
Under the Consent to Medical Treatment and Parliament Care Act 1995, registered
nurses can consent to a healthcare treatment for children and adult, this consent is taken when
the patient cannot give their consent (Evans et al. 2015). This includes medical emergencies.
Under the National board, AHPRA, and Children’s Protection act a registered nurse always
have to make mandatory reporting when the patient is suspected to be physically abused and
tortured (Mathews et al. 2015)It is a duty of a registered nurse to report any significant abuse
that is sufficient to harm the patient’s health and wellbeing. Sexual harassment is another
major problem that cannot be neglected. The report should be forwarded to child and family
welfare agencies (Sheehan 2018). Besides, it is also important to report any suspicious that
can lead to the harm of the patient’s health and wellbeing in the future.
According to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) has set up some
standards for the registered nurses in Australia (Nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018).
Under the idea of standard two and criteria of effective communication, which engages in
therapeutic and professional relationships with the patient. The registered nurses should
establish the connection in such a way that personal and professional relationships can be
differentiated. The behavioural pattern of the caregiver acutely influences children and young
adults; they judge and accept the medical treatment based on a positive approach of the nurse.

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The registered nurses should approach an effective communication maintaining the respect
for the patient’s cultural value, believes and dignity (Gluyas 2015). Keeping in mind that the
patient have the right to accept or reject the treatment, it is a responsibility of a nurse to
educate the patient about the necessity of the treatment without forcing them by effective
communication. The professional registered nurse should be well informed because it is
expected of them to direct the patient to the right person. The expert can provide support for
the patient in the health-related decisions. Nurse advocacy is needed to represent the
requirements of the patients in front of the doctor (Reed, Fitzgerald and Bish 2015). All the
above-mentioned requirement cannot be completed without the effective communication.
This technique is essential to remove the obligations of the patient regarding the treatment
and to find an alternate treatment plan. The registered nurses should use consultation,
coordination, delegation and supervision to achieve a positive outcome. The nurse should
always adopt a safety culture and involve with health professionals and others in order to
provide person-centred care. The nurse should include collaborative practice and report to the
authorities about the arrival of any notifiable disease (Nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018).
It can be concluded that in Australia the future health issues of the children and young
adults is minimized through various health strategies. These health strategies include
concerning and risk management. The healthcare of children refers to the cultural, religious,
legal and ethical aspect of the Australian law for children and young adult. The registered
nurse who is responsible for giving the care of the patient should follow the NMBA certified
standards. Engaging the patient with effective communication and recognizing the
requirements of the patient to advocate them on behalf of the patient to the doctor. Caring
includes reporting the case to the right authority and provide after treatment guidance to the
patient.

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