The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia

Running head: ROACH’S Cs 1
Infographic and Rationale on Roach’s Compassion and Competence
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Rationale
The Code of Conduct as presented by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
(2018), provides a comprehensive guideline for the nursing professionals in context to their
legal requirements, nursing responsibilities, conduct and behaviour. It is evident that to
achieve the highest standards of professionalism, the nursing individuals have to be familiar
with these guidelines and implement them in their clinical practice to ensure safe and
effective practice.
The nurses in every health care setting are required and expected to have compassion,
sympathy and empathy with the patients to help evolve a positive workplace experience and
greater patient satisfaction. According to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
(2018), compassion helps the health care professionals, especially the nurses, to better
empathize with the patients, which initiate adequate treatment services being given in a right
period of time. Furthermore, compassion helps to develop a human connection between the
nursing professionals and the profession or work (Cowin, Riley, Heiler & Gregory, 2019).
Compassionate nursing is highly linked with caring actions undertaken by the nurses for their
patients, which helps to develop emotional aspects in the therapeutic relationship and better
provision of care for the patient.
On the other hand, nursing professionals are required to exhibit competent work
capabilities which include the core abilities to fulfil the role of nurses in health care settings.
There are several different attributes of nursing competency, which includes, trait theory,
behaviourism and holism (Fukada, 2018). According to these three different attributes,
competency is determined by the individual traits of the nurses, their core skills and other
elements such as attitudes, values, thinking ability and knowledge (Casey et al., 2017).
According to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2018), competency aids the
nurses to achieve the highest standards of professional approach in the workplace.