Nursing Standards of Practice Assignment 2022

Running head: STANDARDS
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STANDARDS 2
Ellis, (2019) stated that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) ensure that the
registered nurses follow the guidelines they have outlined. When the RNs deliver their services
they are always guided by the national registered standards for practice and the NMBA standards
according to Gorski, (2017). It is clear that nursing is one of the complex profession in Australia.
It is the field that requires the service provider to think critically and analyze various cases
presented to him or her. Thorough analysis is what ensures that the nurse achieve thoughtful
development and ensure constructive relationships with the patients and the board of nurses. For
a nurse to achieve quality practice, he or she must always coordinate activities in the healthcare,
ensure safety and quality services. However these nurses work at different capacities. The
registered nurses are always at the top of the management. They delegate and supervise various
activities in the health care that other junior nurses are performing. In this assignment, I will
elaborate on reflection of my personal experience with two Registered Nursing Standards of
practice while I was in my placement in a health care.
During my placement at the health care center, was entitled to deliver my services according to
the Registered Nurse Standards of Practice. While at the hospital, I got an opportunity to serve
patient at the mental and medical ward. When at these two places, I was to emphasize of the
standard. At the end of the placement session, I had a remarkable experience. The following are
the two standards that relate to my experience.
Standard 2: Engage in a therapeutic and professional relationship
When I began my placement, I got an opportunity to deliver my service at the medical ward. The
ward comprised of patients from various backgrounds with different cases. Consequently, there
is a single case that I live to remember up to today. It was during lunch time that a certain patient
experiencing severe pain came to the hospital. From the behavior, I could notice that the pain

STANDARDS 3
was too much to the patient to an extent he became impatient and unruly. The man became
abusive after few minutes constantly complaining of his situation. It is a curse that attracted my
attention and as a caring nurse I felt that the man was in need of my services. Failing to attend to
him was a sign that I have failed in my career as a nurse. Despite the care I was planning to
provide to the patient, I got irritated after some time because the patient was noisy and not
allowing me to attend to him properly.
Lowe & Plummer, (2019) stated that the nursing standard on engaging in therapeutic and
professional relationship emphasizes on the relationship between the nurse and other patients. In
this standard, it has specific requirements that a registered nurse should look at in period of
service delivery. Some of the requirements according to this standard in include:
a. Communicating effectively and with respect. The communication should consider the
patient’s culture, beliefs, values and dignity.
b. Identifying that people are experts in the experience.
c. Supporting people and ensuring they get resources that can improve their health status.
d. Maintaining consultations with other health providers with the goal of improving the
health status of the patient.
e. Establishing connection with the patients in a manner that recognizes the boundaries
between personal and professional relationship.
Basing my thoughts on the guidelines that this standard have provided and the scenario I
encountered, the first thing I ensured was I was in good terms with the patient. Nurses sometimes
encounters uncooperative patients, however this should not make the nurse to ignore the
guidelines. I maintained a good rapport with the man despise abusive and irritating words he was
uttering. Besides that, I realized that I could handle this situation myself. I had to consider