Healthcare Assignment | Professional and Ethical Practice
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Healthcare Assignment | Professional and Ethical Practice
Added on 2020-04-13
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Running head: HEALTHCAREHEALTHCAREName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
1HEALTHCARE1.Ans:- The competency standard of the NMBA nursing practice normally focuses on threedomains:-1)Professional and ethical practice2)Critical thinking and analysis3)Management of care.These three domains are important for an RN to incorporate in to her nursing practice. Thiscan be accomplished by undertaking evidence based research approach to analyze thecondition of the patient critically, management of the care by careful assessment of thepatient and providing a holistic care of approach towards every patient (Willis et al. 2016).2.Ans:- The NMBA codes of conduct involve (Ossenberg et al.2015):1) Legal compliance, which ensures that all the nurses should adhere to the federalobligations and norms under the federal laws. 2) Practicing of safe, woman- centered and culturally safe nursing- This can be done byassisting the women in taking health care decisions, taking care of her baby andimparting education to her family.3)Practicing with professional integrity- It is important for a nurse to commit to respect,honesty, compassion to the patient. A nurse should also help her peers for developing askilled work force.4)Health and well being of the patient- Nurse will be able to promote safe and equal healthto the patient.Nurses should abide by this framework to provide an appropriate care to the patient andto flourish in her professional practice.3.Ans:- The NMBA codes of ethics in Australia can be summarized as follows-
2HEALTHCARENurses should be able to provide quality nursing to all the population of the society irrespectiveof the socio-economic status and the diversified culture. Nurses are responsible for providinginformation to the patient and his family and should be able to maintain integrity and dignity ofthe patient. A nurse would be able to value the social, economical and environmental well beingof a community (Wills et al. 2016). The NMBA standard will act as a reference point for the nurses to develop the skills ofdetermining and upholding the human rights to give a dignified and safe care (Levett-Jones andBourgeois 2015).4.Ans:- The NMBA practice decision flowchart involves integration, lawful authorizationand professional consensus, risk management , organizational support, preparation andexperience, education, competence, accountability and confidence. The flowchart willhelp the nurse to identify the benefit or the needs of the client, help to select theappropriate person for the activity, helps to evaluate whether proper care is beingpromoted to the patient (Ossenberg et al.2015).5.Ans: - Nurses take care of the physical, mental and spiritual well being of the patient andhelps in giving a skilled, dignified, holistic and culturally safe care to the patient.Nurses go in frontline with the doctors nowadays to provide care to the patients. They are theone to attend a patient first and provide the first line of care. Caring has always been a noblework and encourages me to devote myself to the wellbeing of the people. The scope of practice frame work would help the nurses to take decisions regarding care forthe patients.
3HEALTHCARE6.Ans:- An enrolled nurse helps a patient with the activities of the daily life, providemedication, other nursing care responsibilities, assess the changes in the patient and reportthe conditions to the registered nurse (Jacob et al.2012) .Registered nurses on the other hand are on a higher pedestal as compared to theregistered nurse as per the qualifications. A registered nurse generally supervises anenrolled nurse (Jacob et al.2012).7.Ans:- A multidisciplinary health care team involves:-A doctor or a General practitioner, Enrolled and registered nurses, health care educators,Physician assistants, pharmacists, dentists, technicians, therapists, spiritual supportproviders, community health workers (McCrae 2012).8.Ans: - Non-western form of traditional medicine is generally practiced by the aboriginalsof Australia as they did not believe in the westernized concept of medical treatment. Thisis primarily cased due to the negative past between the White Australians and theaboriginals. Furthermore Chinese tribal medicines are also found to be practiced inAustralia. There are traditional healers who use bush medicines and acupuncture to healdiseases. In general there are no policies on traditional medicines; however the NationalMedicines Policy includes complementary health care products (Adams et al. 2012). TheTherapeutic goods administration of Australia is responsible for the funding and theregulation of traditional medicines. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agencymaintains four national health practitioner boards containing TM/CAM practitioners(Wills et al. 2016)..9.Ans:- Define:-
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