Legal And Ethical Decision Making In Nursing Practice

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Legal And Ethical Decision Making In Nursing Practise
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What is professional practice?
Professional practice assures nurses to preserve a superiority of care in the training,
continuously evidencing and appraising their practice. It also focuses upon culture,
governance, leadership, legislation,regulation and policy that needs to be followed during
providing care to the patients. It also important because it guides the continuing clinical
practice and promote safety (Government of South Australia, 2020).
Describe professional nursing practice
Professional nursing practice is the capability for concerned and compassion in
associations with patients. Professional practice involves proficiency in the field of practical
skills and also involves good behaviours for caring patients. It comprises of both experience
and knowledge in the choosen field of practice to give a better care.
Privacy and confidentiality within the Health field.
Medical confidentiality is a fixed set of rules that bounds entrance to information
conversed between an individual and their healthcare specialists. Privacy in a healthcare
means informations that are shared by the patients with the practisioners, these mainly
includes records of personal informations, previous medications and also any past history of
disease.
Which laws govern Registered Nursing health professionals with regard to privacy and
confidentiality?
The Health Practitioner National Law is enforced in Australia which guides the
individual in performing separate functions under the rules and regulation of the law. It forces
more upon protected information that the patients provides. The Privacy Act also helps in
protecting the information along with the communities and agencies (Ahpra & National

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Boards, 2019). The Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses also 10 rules that nurses must
follow in during the practise. This includes nurses must train in a safe method, they must
practise according to the rules of the board and health care, practice must be according to the
law, nurses must respect the patients, provide proper information to the patients, support the
patient, build trust and practice within ethics.
How is privacy and confidentiality part of professional nursing practice?
Nurses must maintain a proper privacy and confidentiality about the patient who is
under treatment and also not disclose the informations unless proper orders comes. Failing to
maintain privacy of any patient reduces the chance of person-centred care and breaks the trust
worthy relationship with the healthcare which effects the treatment as well (PRIVACY AND
CONFIDENTIALITY, 2015).
Outline the purpose of the Australian Charter of Health Care Rights and discuss why
those rights are significant for the patient/consumer and for the health professional in
the clinical setting.
The chart describes about the patients and consumers right that are used in the
healttthcares to provide a high quality of care and safety. The purpose of the charter is to
make everyones access in heath service, to protect the human rights and finally it respects all
the social cultures. This charter is significant because is provides every right to individuals to
access the service, in achieving safe and quality care, respecting each patient irrespective to
their social background, provides informed care, helps in free participation and decision
making, keeps information protected and also has right to address the concern about health. It
helps the care providers to omit further problems in future and avoid dilemma ("The
Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights in Victoria", 2016).