Legal and Professional Issues in Nursing

Running head: Legal and professional issues in nursing
LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN NURSING
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Running head: Legal and professional issues in nursing
Abstract
This assignment involves answering questions by complying with student re-entry or
international entry nurse on clinical placement for fulfilling the learning outcomes of
applying legal and ethical frameworks and professional codes and guidelines to nursing
practice and delegating nursing care in an appropriate manner to optimise patient outcomes.
Findings of the assignment involved detailing scopes of nursing practice, appropriate nursing
cares and negotiating nursing cares for first week of clinical practice and last week of clinical
practice. With regard to the case of taking selfies with a patient imposing ethical dilemma,
findings suggest that data protection act does not support taking selfies with the patient.
However, taking selfies by ensuring informed consent from the patient does not breach
HIPAA. On the other hand, as per the code of conduct of the NMBA standard, a nurse must
act with professional integrity and taking selfies with the patient does not exhibit any
professional behaviour. The report concludes that, for becoming a registered nurse, a student
nurse must work under the guidance of the registered nurse and learn practical experiences.
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Running head: Legal and professional issues in nursing
Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Step 1:.........................................................................................................................................3
Week 1:......................................................................................................................................3
a) Scope of practice as students re-entry or international entry nurse at the beginning of
clinical placements:....................................................................................................................3
b) Appropriate nursing care in performing the first week of the clinical placements:..............3
c) Negotiate delegation of the cares with the registered nurse buddy by using NMBA:...........4
Week 4:......................................................................................................................................5
a) Practice scope as the international entry nurse or student re-entry at the end of clinical
placements:.................................................................................................................................5
b) Appropriate nursing care at the last week of the clinical placements:...................................5
c) Negotiate delegation of the cares with the registered nurse buddy by using NMBA:...........6
Step 2:.........................................................................................................................................6
a) Explanation of why it is the legal and ethical dilemma:........................................................7
b) Explain the act to approach the situation for ensuring that the healthcare facilities and I are
not practising outside own scope:..............................................................................................8
Conclusions:...............................................................................................................................9
Reference list:...........................................................................................................................10
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Running head: Legal and professional issues in nursing
Introduction:
Becoming a registered nurse is not an easy task. For becoming a registered nurse, students
have to go through different clinical placements where they learn to take care of the patients
practically. This assignment is intended to describe the scope of practice of student nurse.
This assignment also sheds lights on the ethical dilemma faced by the nursing students.
Step 1:
Week 1:
a)Scope of practice as students re-entry or international entry nurse at the beginning of
clinical placements:
Nurses can be out from the workforce for a variety of reasons, but no matter the reasons, a
registered nurse can re-enter the nursing profession with the help of a variety of pathways.
There is an international entry nurse who can also begin studying in Australia. The scope of
practices of the student nurses or foreign entry nurses is different than the registered nurses of
Australia. At the beginning of the clinical placements, the scope of practice of a student nurse
is highly task-focused that allows the registered nurse in providing focuses to develop skills
and knowledge (Kelly et al. 2016).Therefore, in the first week of clinical placements, a nurse
is associated with developing their practical skills under the direct supervision of the
registered nurse. Moreover, they are also associated with understanding the need of the
patients and learning to fulfilling the need of the patient.
Clinical placements ensure that the student nurse develops the skills and knowledge that are
required for competent practices. For enhancing the capabilities of the student’s re-entry
nurse and the international entry nurse, the registered nurse plays an important role. In that
case, social learning theory can be applied (National Association of School Nurses, 2016). By
using the social learning theory, role modelling is developed that influence an individual's
professional socialisation by transmitting skills, knowledge along with the attitudes.
b) Appropriate nursing care in performing the first week of the clinical placements:
In the first week of clinical placements, the student re-entry nurses or the international entry
nurses get an active ward leaning environment. In the first week, students learn case studies
of different patients. For learning a practical skill about taking care of the patients, they
receive case notes of the patients, tutorials, hand-over notes and achieves the ward round
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