Western Sydney University: Legal and Professional Issues in Nursing

This essay presents a student's profile, curriculum vitae, and reflections on legal and professional issues in nursing. It details the student's personal attributes, academic achievements, and employment history, including experiences in an aged care home and as a childcare educator. The essay highlights strategies for complying with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) guidelines and outlines continuing professional development (CPD) plans, focusing on leadership skills and critical care nursing. A reflective account of an incident in an aged care home, using Gibb's reflective framework, illustrates the student's commitment to healthcare and motivation to pursue a career in emergency nursing. The document emphasizes the importance of ethical standards, communication skills, and continuous learning in nursing practice.

Running head : LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN NURSING
Legal and Professionals Issues in Nursing
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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1.PROFILE OF THE STUDENT
Name of the student :
Personal attributes
I have excellent communication skills as I have been able to handle difficult clients with my
communication skills and negotiation capabilities. According to Kourkouta and Papathanasiou
(2014) good communication between nurses and patients is vital for achieving positive outcome
and reducing medical errors. I am hard working and have shown utmost loyalty to work as per
my work responsibilities and ethical standards of the organization. Another positive aspect of my
personality is that I am always interested in learning new things and this reflects my flexibility in
adapting to different roles.
Academic achievements
I have completed my graduation in 2014. I have completed a course in Completed
nursing foundation studies in 2015 and I am currently pursuing the course of bachelor of nursing.
Employment Achievements
Some of my achievements so far in my career are that I have worked for 9 months in an
aged care home in villa wood. This has given me the knowledge regarding the needs and
standards of geriatric care. I have also gained some experience in understanding developmental
needs of children by working as an educator in Aus kids for 8 months.
Strategies to achieve compliance with NMBA guideline:
As per the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), working according to
developed codes of conduct, standards for practice and code of ethics are necessary in Australia.

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This enables nurse to work as per expectation and avoid any ethical or practical issues in care
(Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2018). To get well-versed with the NMBA
standards of practice, it is planned to review all the guidelines and get more details from my
mentor regarding the best way to the follow the guidelines in daily practice.
2. CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Details
Academic History
I have passed a senior secondary certificate of education as a regular student in year 11
and 12 and I have got my graduation degree from the Auburn Girls High School in 2014. During
my school period I applied for a diploma course in beauty and skincare at Granville, TAFE. I
started my course at the starting of 2014 and I finished the course on 29th September,2014. After
that, I have enrolled myself in a course of nursing fundamental studies in Nirimba campus of
Western Sydney College and the courses duration was 8 month. In this course, I mainly learnt
about the health communication, academic English, mathematics for health sciences, computer
competency. In 2016, I took admission in bachelor of nursing course in Cambeltown campus of
Western Sydney University and currently I am continuing that course.
Employment History
Job 1-
Company name : Australian Kids Family Day Care
Date of Joining: 22nd February ,2016

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Address of the office : 190, Waterloo rd. Chester Hill
Manger Name : Mina Alchalabi
Contact number: 0412225555
Mail id ; [e-mail]
Job 2-
Company name : Kin Care
Job Role: Provide support and care to the elderlies and helping them in shopping, house keeping,
personal care.
Address of the office: Bella vista NSW
Manger Name :Tim Lurane
Contact number: [phone]
Mail id : [e-mail]
Referees:
Interests
I love to read books and love to explore new cultures too. I love to work on electronic
devices and love to do volunteer work for people and society.
3. CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)
Past short courses
I have completed certificate level 3 in aged care in 2016

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Working with children check course in 2018,
Course of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in 2017
Certificate in First aid ( 2018)
Certificate in Anaphylaxis in 2017
Current CPD required:
Currently, I need CPD in the area of leadership, professional practice skills and principles
of critical care nursing. I aim to gain leadership skills to enhance my future career prospective
and seize the opportunity of being a leader and guiding junior nurse in the delivery of high
standard of care. In addition, developing knowledge in the area of critical care is important to
take the right decision making regarding complex cases. To complete the above mentioned CPD,
the strategy is to contact my referral and get the best referral for organizations which can give the
best exposure regarding the development of leadership skills. In addition, more knowledge
related to principles of critical care nursing will be done by engaging in a short online course.
Plan for Future courses
Currently I am pursuing the course of bachelor of nursing course and in future I am
planning to do full time master degree in nursing in the main university campus of Western
Sydney University and it is a course of 1.5 years. After that, I want to pursue the postgraduate
course in critical care nursing and it is an online course, and its duration is one year. In this
course, there is four unit and among them one unit should be chosen to complete the study. I am
planning to choose the unit of emergency nursing as I love to take challenges.

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Workshops
I have attended a workshop related to the nursing practice and it was a professional
course. In this workshop, I were exposed to practical experience of nursing care and that
practical knowledge helped me in gaining knowledge in various sections of the nursing care. In
this workshop, I have mainly learnt about the importance of hand hygiene, vital signs of various
disease, bedding, communicating with the patients, clearing a dead body and also the procedure
of administrating the medicines. I have learnt about the subcutaneous, intravascular injection.
4.Reflection on an incident happened in the Aged care home
In this section, I would like to reflect on an incident that I experienced in the Aged care
home. Gibb’s reflective framework has been used for reflecting by first starting with description
of the event and then evaluating the event to plan future course of action (Husebø, O'Regan &
Nestel, 2015). After finishing my diploma in beauty and skin care in 2014, I joined my first job
on 22nd February,2016. I was very much excited about the job as it was my first job. I joined in
aged care center as I have joined in the bachelor degree course of nursing. I have joined in this
aged care as this experience of taking care of the elderly people will help me in giving care to the
patients. On the first day of joining, it was quite normal day and I was introduced to all of my
colleagues and all the wards were shown to me. I joined there to help the older people in their
activities of daily life for instance helping them in personal care, help them in their transport. I
used help them in their shopping too. I love the work very much as I got chance to communicate
with lots of people in that aged care. I used to talk with them and try to make them very much
comfortable so that they can say their problem. They also loved to talk with me. Suddenly one

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day, I found that one old lady was on the floor and she is crying in loud voice. I tried to help her
in standing but I failed. Then, with the help of the other people, I succeeded lift her up. She had
severe pain in her ankle and that area was warm and there was swelling in that region. I gave
her primary care and tried to communicate with her. In communication, I discovered that, she
tried to go outside and that time she had that fall and I discovered that, she had a previous
chronic pain in her knee joint due to arthritics. Then I told her to take rest and continuously tried
to motivate her as she had no hope about her life. She lost her husband two years ago and her son
had brought her in this aged care center. After this incident, I was very much upset for her
condition but I concealed my feelings. This incident of the age care center had motivated me to
pursue my carrier in the health care sector and I chose the option of being a registered nurse and
planned to complete the one year online course in emergency nursing. The experience of that day
in the age care drove me towards the course of emergency nursing so that in future, if there is
any kind of mishap I can handle that with my knowledge.

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References:
Husebø, S. E., O'Regan, S., & Nestel, D. (2015). Reflective practice and its role in
simulation. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 11(8), 368-375.
Kourkouta, L., & Papathanasiou, I. V. (2014). Communication in Nursing Practice. Materia
Socio-Medica, 26(1), 65–67. http://doi.org/10.5455/msm.2014.26.65-67
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2018). Professional standards. Retrieved from:
https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/codes-guidelines-statements/professional-
standards.aspx