Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights

RUNNING HEAD: PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE 0
PROFESSIONAL NURSING
PRACTICE
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PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE 1
Professional Practice
Professional practice is related with the acting of the individual in the professional
conduct. Further, professional nursing practice is based on the certain standards which are
required to be met by the registered nurse in the process of delivering services to the patients.
The standards can consist of the competent level of care given to the patient. The standards for
professional nursing practice are assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning the care
and coordinating the health promotion and prescriptive authority and treatment (RN.com,
2011).
Privacy and Confidentiality within Health Field
In the professional nursing practice, it is important for the nurses to maintain the privacy
and confidentiality through the secured systems. Also, it is the duty of the nurse to safely keep
the personal information of patients private in order to maintain the integrity of the information.
The law for regulating privacy is Privacy Act 1981, Cth which is applies to all the professional
nurse with regard to privacy (Slater & Gordon, 2019). This law is modified by Health
Practitioner Regulation National Law Regulation 2018. For confidentiality, there is no specific
legislation in Australia but the same has legal sense governed by ‘Common Law’.
Patient Rights
Patient’s health care rights are important as it provides the patients to get the right
treatment at the right time which can lead to healthcare outcomes. Moreover, it is the right of the
patient to get the quality of care and also get the equal treatment and fairly treated by the nurse.
Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights consists of the rights of patients and other members