Nursing Care and Code of Conduct: Integrating Roach's 6C's and NMBA Standards for Enhanced Practice

In this analysis we will discuss about nursing care & code of conduct  and below are the summaries point:- Roach's 6C's of nursing provide a guideline for excellent patient-centered care in nursing practice. The selected 3C's (Care, Competence, Communication) from Roach's 6C's align with the NMBA standards of practice. The NMBA standards emphasize critical thinking, professional relationships, competence, and safe healthcare provision. The integration of the 6C's and NMBA standards leads to ethical decision-making, respect, collaboration, and improved patient outcomes.

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Rationale:
Roach's 6C’s of nursing is a guideline for the nurse practitioners to ensure excellent health care
to the patients. All the values of 6Cs are of equal importance. Patient-centered care is the main
theme of these vales. As the nurses are the primary care providers to the patients the 6Cs of
nursing is an ideal guideline for all the nurse practitioners.
Roach's 6C’S:
Care: Care should ensure positive patient related outcome which improves the health of a
community. Standard of care should be precise and consistent throughout the career of a nurse
(Bradshaw, 2016).
Compassion: Care giving through building relationship. Showing respect, empathy and holistic
support to the patient is key to patient-centered nursing care.
Competence: Thorough clinical and technical knowledge of a nurse which ensures precise
decision-making and efficient diagnosis. Evidenced based care is practiced by competent nurses
(Winland-Brown et al., 2013).
Communication: Communication among the nurses and other healthcare professionals ensure
collaborative care for the patient. It results in synchronized care provided by multidisciplinary
healthcare teams (Clickner & Shirey, 2013).
Courage: For a nurse it helps in decision-making, innovative interventions and stand up if it is
required for the benefit of the patient.
Commitment: A nurse should always be committed to the provision of proper care of a patient.
Health of the patient and mitigating adverse events should be the priority for a nurse.

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NMBA standards for practice:
 Critical thinking and analyzing about the nursing practice.
 Involving in professional and therapeutic relationship.
 Maintaining the capability of practicing efficient nursing.
 Assessing the information in a holistic manner.
 Developing clinical plans and settings (Cusack, 2017).
 Providing safe and responsible healthcare to the patients.
 Evaluating outcomes to make required changes in nursing practice.
Relationship between selected 3 C’s and the NMBA code of conduct:
Care, Competence and Communication are 3 Cs selected from the Roach's 6Cs.
 Critical thinking and analyzing requires competence from the nurse with sound clinical
knowledge which ensures efficient nursing practice.
 Involving in therapeutic and professional relationship requires communication among the
nurses and other healthcare professionals.
 Assessing the data, developing the clinical plan and evaluating the outcomes for making
future changes in the intervention requires both competence and communication skills
from the nurse.
 Providing safe and responsible healthcare to the patients is the core objective of care from
the nurse.

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So the NMBA Standards of Practice essentially overlaps with the Roach's 6Cs, especially with
the 3Cs selected in this article (Cusack, 2016).
Effects of 6C’s and NMBA standards of practice:
 Ensures ethical and precise decision-making for all the patients.
 Each patient is treated with respect without any form of discrimination.
 Nursing practice is exhibited based on knowledge, experience, evidence and skills.
 Practice is done in a collaborative way from all the stakeholders ensuring better patient
outcome (Vogt, Hibberd & Halloran, 2018).

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