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Health of Infants, Children and Young People

   

Added on  2020-11-12

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Health of Infants, Childrenand Young People

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Standard for reflecting the role of registered nurse (RN) in consent and mandatory reporting .....1CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTIONThe registered nurses play a vital role in assuring health care of infants, children andyoung people. The report will describe the role of registered nurse in consent during health caretreatment. It will also highlight their role in mandatory reporting of child abuse cases. Theregistered nurses must take the consent from the patients before proceeding the healthcarepractices. The report will describe the criterion for registered nurse to achieve the consent fromthe patients particularly when the patients are minors or children below 18 then it is an importanttask for nurses to find the suitable guardian or individuals who can provide the appropriateconsent and description of necessary facts about the patients. The report will also emphasis onthe requirements of mandatory reporting in case of child abuses. The registered nurses can play asignificant role in helping legal authorities to abolish such activities of harassment and abuses. Standard for reflecting the role of registered nurse (RN) in consent Standard (6): Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice There are various standards for RN for practising the health care. One of the importantstandard for RN is to deliver appropriate and safe nursing practices with great responsibility.These nursing practises are required to be deliver in compliance with the ethical, legal andquality considerations. This standard provides criterion to RN for guiding them their role inconsent and mandatory reporting. The standard provides following criterion :Criterion for consent (6.4):Timely direction and supervision It is the responsibility of the RN to obtain the informed consent from the patient beforeproceeding for health care practices. With the consent RN makes sure that the patients allowhealth care providers to perform the medical treatment and they are completely aware regardingthe possible risks, benefits and the impact of refusing consents. The timely action plays animportant role in health care (Fact sheet: Recency of practice, 2018). Thus, RN must ensure thatinformed consent is obtained from the right person and within time. The time delay in treatingemergency cases can lead to inverse impact on the health of patient. The consent must be provided from the suitable person. Especially the children below 18are not able to provide the consent properly. Thus, it the duty of RN that they seek consent fromthe guardian of the children. The children are very sensitive and have lot of conceptionsregarding health care (Judkins-Cohn and et.al., 2014). Thus, RN must supervise their behaviour1

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