Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses, Midwives, and Nursing Associates

Professional standards of
practice and behaviour for
nurses midwives and nursing
associates

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Summary.....................................................................................................................................3
Professionalism...........................................................................................................................4
Ethical principle..........................................................................................................................4
Lack of role model in the scenario..............................................................................................5
Role of the nurse in raising and escalating concern....................................................................5
Incident reporting and safeguarding............................................................................................5
Safe administration of medicine..................................................................................................6
Stress management our self awareness.......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Professional standard refers to a description of the competent level of care which are
provided by nursing staff through their process. These are effective and allowed to reflect on
achievable and desired level of performance which nurses actual perform and can be compared
more effectively for delivering health care services to patient through providing their services.
Code contains the professional standard related with registered nurse or midwives and nursing
associate that they must uphold some quality delivery of services that are related with delivering
patient related care and services and other aspect from health professionals. This should be
perform everyday and should be register through maintaining record. In this essay, there is a
discussion about the summary of issues within scenario. There is also discussion about
professionalism and ethical principle which should be followed for better service delivery. There
is also discussion about lack of role models within scenario along with team working. There is
also some role of nurses which should be raise and escalating concerns. This also include the
reporting of incidents related with safeguarding and safe administration of medication. It also
includes self-awareness, cultural competence and others for delivering effective care services to
patient or service user (Yin, (2020)).
Summary
In this scenario, it has been observed that when and Rita as a nursing staff who take care
of the word and working together randomly with Ben. It has been observed by Ben that Rita is
performing unethical practices and creating risk of life for the patient. Unsafe practices is
performing by Rita where she is administering Lorazepam 1 gram tablet to the service user.
When asked to stop this type of behaviour then influence Ben by saying that this medication will
prescribed soon. This scenario expect that there is unethical practices performed by the Rita
which also create risk of patient's health and safety. It also create safeguarding issues with
involved to the service user and need to perform ethical practices within ward. Ben have the
responsibility to raise the concern and report it to the manager or any senior authority but due to
getting wrong in eyes of Rita and other staff member he get confused about reporting. Ben also
discussed with another healthcare professional regarding the issue and behavior of Rita where he
decided to inform this incident for protecting and following the ethical principle within care
wards (Ehrlich, (2020)). So, when reported this incident to the senior manager about disclosing