Nursing Legislation and Decision-Making

Running head: NURSING LEGISLATION AND DECISION-MAKING
NURSING LEGISLATION AND DECISION-MAKING
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1NURSING LEGISLATION AND DECISION-MAKING
Response to Question 1
Concerning the critical medical conditions occurring against the backdrop of a zombie
outbreak in Queensland, the Registered Nurse plays a key role in the provision of optimum
health and treatment services, along with the upholding of the required ethical and legislative
principles pertaining to the maintenance of nursing codes of professional practice (Birks et al.
2016). Hence, during the critical situation of the zombie outbreak, the registered nurse will be
required to certain principles outlined by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – a
professional based clinical organization, aiming to establish professional health care standards
(Nagle et al. 2017). Hence, based on the above, the registered nurse will be required to
implement adequate decision-making strategies, outlined in the National Decision Making
Framework (Tiffen, Corbridge & Slimmer 2014). In the light of treatment following the zombie
epidemic in Queensland, the registered nurses are required to follow certain legislative principles
as outlined by the Queensland Department of Health and the Government of Queensland. One of
the key legislative acts to be followed is the Health Rights Commission Act 1991 and Health
Quality and Complaints Act 2006, in which the registered nurse must educated the family of the
concerned patient, concerning the pathophysiology of the zombie infection as well as involve
them in the care process. The registered nurse also has to follow the Nursing Act and Nursing
regulation 2005, where she is obliged to provide adequate and optimum quality health and
treatment services for the concerned patients suffering from zombie infections. According to the
Health Services Legislation 1991 and 2002, the nurse must also undertake services involving
various other multidisciplinary departments at the organizational level, in order to provide a
holistic care treatment for the patients suffering from zombie infection (Young et al., 2015).