Group Work Research Project 2022

Running head: GROUP WORK
Research Project 2, Group 3
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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GROUP WORK1
Legislation and
Legal provisions
Relevance to the nursing
profession
How this is legislation applied in
nursing practice:
Legislation and
Legal provisions
Relevance to the nursing
profession
How this is legislation applied in
nursing practice:
Group 3
Mental health
legislation
These legislation are pertinent to the
nursing profession since they will
facilitate the involuntary obligation
and treatment of individuals
suffering from a plethora of acute
psychiatric disorders. The legislation
will also take attempts at striking a
balance between different civil
liberties with the necessity for
preventing any grave harm to the
patients, while providing them care
(RANZCP, 2018). The legislation is
also relevant since it has been
designed in a manner that ensures
protection of rights of different
individuals, in order to ensure that
they have been admitted to the
healthcare setting as per their will.
The legislation is applied to
nursing practice by helping the
practitioners and nursing
professionals protect the rights of
people suffering from mental
illness, and also helps them ensure
that the patients are provided
necessary support, on their
discharge from the hospital
(Davidson et al., 2016). The
legislation also makes the nurses
allow somebody to make
healthcare decisions made on
behalf of people who are not
capable of providing their
consent, thus facilitating delivery
of nursing care. It also helps
nursing staff to act as patient
advocates where they closely