Role of Nurses in Supporting Aboriginal Women with Mental Health Issues

ROLE OF NURSES TO SUPPORT
ABORIGINAL WOMEN WITH MENTAL
HEALTH ISSUES

NMBA code of conduct for nurses:
• Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) is an organization to manage the Australian nurses,
midwives, the nursing and midwifery students (Ingham-Broomfield, 2015).
• Significance of the code of conducts of NMBA for the aboriginal women with mental issues:
a) to provide complete care, bias and racism free service for Aboriginal Women with Mental Issues
b) facilitate access to quality and culturally safe heath for Aboriginal and/or Torres strait Islander people
c) to help in the healthcare decision making of Aboriginal and/or Torres strait Islander people for proper care
delivery
• NMBA code of conduct violation are two types: professional misconduct and unprofessional misconduct.
• A employee must report to the AHPRA if a practitioner or nurse was to be found violating the code of conduct
• Formal legal proceedings will be taken by AHPRA according to the seriousness of the charge (Nursing and
Midwifery Board of Australia, 2008)