Written Assignment: NMBA Guidelines for Nursing Practice (HLT54115)

This assignment, completed by a student pursuing a Diploma of Nursing, delves into the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) guidelines and their practical application. The student explains the roles of the NMBA and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), highlighting their functions in regulating nursing practice and supporting nurses. The assignment then summarizes the NMBA's registration standards, including continuous professional development, criminal history checks, English language proficiency, professional indemnity insurance, and recency of practice, and relates these standards to the student's future role as an Enrolled Nurse. Furthermore, the assignment presents a scenario involving wound care and describes how the student would apply the NMBA's standards and decision-making framework to address the situation, including the skills, knowledge, and learning activities required to perform the procedure safely. The assignment concludes by emphasizing the importance of these guidelines and frameworks in ensuring safe and competent nursing practice.

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Student name Raman Kumar Student ID 100615921
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Department HSYCS, Nursing
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I Teacher name Pamela Badawy
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HLT54115 Qualification
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Diploma of Nursing
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Practise nursing within the Australian health care
system
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Assessment
title
Written Assignment - Nursing and Midwifery
Board of Australia: Professional Guidelines
Assessment
task 1 of 5 F
Due date 21/05/2019 Date submitted 21/05/2019 Re-
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Part A: (Word count 1000 words)
The task
1. Briefly explain the role of the following bodies:
 Nursing and midwifery board of Australia (NMBA).
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) coordinates all functions set to adhere to the
health sector. This means that it regulates all the activities practiced by registered nurses.
Moreover, it plays the role in protecting the public by ensuring that they get the correct
understanding of the nurse’s role including best practice. Not only focusing on nursing practices, it
provides rules and regulations which are supposed to be followed by the nurses. This means that it
offers disciplinary rules to the nurses who don’t adhere to the policies in health care. With this law in
the nursing practice, all the nurses ensure that they are offering a competent work to avoid
punishment from the board. This board enables the nurses to know their roles, mainly when serving
in the matters of national emergency and also in the interest of the general public. The board allows
the nurses to apply the knowledge and skills of their profession (Nagle et al., 2017).
Moreover, it provides the policies which nurses are supposed to follow. It provides advise and
support to the professional nurses and midwives. Furthermore, the regulatory board provides a
framework which is used in guiding the nurses in their practice (Fisher, 2017).
 Australian nursing and midwifery federation (ANMF)
This is the largest union in Australia, which has over 300,00 members. Nurses and midwives lead
the regulatory board, and it helps nurses to advance in their profession in many ways, which
includes the industrial sector, political, and nursing profession interest. The union has established its
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branches in all states. It is the role of the union to ensure all its members are employed in all
locations. The sites include the rural and urban areas, the local government, health care, and aged
care. It supports nurses by allowing them to discuss their professional issues and to undertake
research to improve patient outcomes. Moreover, it is the role of the union to ensure that all the
national policies, statements made by the nurses and social justice issues are well-taken care of.it is
also its role in representing the national and the international; nursing organisations (Fisher, 2017).
2: Summarise in your own words each of the following Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
(NMBA). Registration Standards and explain how these standards relate to your future practice as
an Enrolled Nurse
 Registration standard: Continuous Professional Development
Continuous professional development, organised by the NMBA, involves that enrolled nurses (EN),
and midwives gain knowledge and skills in order to maintain their currency and to be competent.
This registration will apply to me in the future because as an Enrolled nurse to be registered I must
complete 20 hours of continuous professional development in one registration period (Missen et al.,
2016).
 Registration standard: Criminal History
The second standard is criminal history that applies to a nurse or midwives when applying for
registration, and he or she is supposed to submit their criminal history in Australia. This ensures that
the nurse registering is safe to practice in Australia. It has its rules in that nurses are punished for
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twelve years. This standard will be useful in my future job because I will avoid all the criminal
offenses so that I can be absorbed as a professional nurse (Missen et al., 2016).
 Registration standard: English Language
The English language skills standard, which applies to nurses and midwives that are registering.
This standard ensures that registered nurses and midwives can speak fluent English in order to
communicate with staff and patients. This standard has some policies in that the nurses should
explain and provide all the requirements, offer proof that they can speak fluent English, and adhere
to the registration policies provide (Leap, Brodie, and Tracy, 2017). As a future EN I need to
demonstrate English language skills so that I can qualify for the registration. In this, I should
demonstrate my competency in English being my primary language, also to make sure that the six
years of primary and secondary education are accessed solely in English. Moreover, I should make
sure that the tertiary qualification has been accessed solely in English in a recognised country. Also,
I should make sure that have completed the one-year pre-registration program and its approved in a
recognised country.
 Registration standard: Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII)
The PII arrangement, which states that the nurses and midwives should not practice in their
profession unless they are registered or are supposed to hold the PII. This ensures that the public is
protected at all costs because if the practitioners are not registered, he or she cannot work in any
organisation or health sector. This means that the nurses who work are insured and can offer
proper treatment to the patients. This registration is necessary for nurses and midwives because it
helps them in their professional work and protects them in case of any loss (Cashin et al., 2017). As
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a future nurse I will ensure that have learnt the English language and can speak fluently so that I
can be competent in my profession.
 Registration standard: Recency of Practice
This registration standard means that if the nurse is registered, he or she has met the qualifications
of being in the profession. This means that every nurse should be well equipped with modern
nursing practise. As a future EN I need to be equipped with modern means of practise like using
technology so that I can perform the tasks diligently in my profession.
 Enrolled Nurse Standards for Practice standard.
This standard is the endorsement as a nurse practitioner which implies that only the individuals
enrolled in the nursing courses are the ones supposed to be registered. In this, I am sure I will be
registered because have enrolled in a nursing program (Anderson, Moxham and Broadbent, 2016).
As a future EN I need to avoid unsatisfactory performance so that I can fit in the registration
standard, also, I should have clinical advanced nursing practice level having completed all the
approved programs needed to be endorsed as a nurse practitioner.
Part B: (Word count 600 words)
1. Describe how you will respond to the scenario using the Nursing and Midwifery Board of
Australia’s (NMBA) standards and Decision-making Framework.
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) has guiding standards and the Decision-
Making Framework (DMF) which nurses and the midwives are supposed to use to guide them when
making appropriate decisions in their professional practice to ensure that no harm is caused to
patients. In this case scenario, the NMBA standards and the DMF will be applied in how I will
respond, reflect on the skills and knowledge and the learning activities required to perform the skill
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of changing a large, infected wound dressing on the patient’s abdomen, something I have not done
since leaving Holmesglen (Gray, 2019).
According to the NMBA standards and decision-making framework, as a Graduate enrolled nurse I
need to apply decision making in my practice. This means any nurse must provide public safety by
using professional knowledge and experience to treat the patients. It allows any nurse to perform on
any scenario using the education being learned in school. This means that any nurse in practice
should increase the skills, knowledge, and competence to deliver quality care to the patients. In this
scenario, I would apply the knowledge I learnt in school so that I can ensure that I have done a
competent work. In case of any help, I could consult my reading materials so that I can get the right
way to address the wound of the patient. (Trollor et al., 2018).
2. Reflect on what skills and knowledge you may need to safely perform this procedure, then
describe these leaning needs
The skills and knowledge are required to undress the wound include. First, I could examine the
strategies which I will use to minimise the pain when performing the process. This can be achieved
by acquiring a pain killer injection. Another skill is accessing the skin of the patient so that to ensure
that no complications will develop after undressing it. Then the use of sterile tools is essential so
that to avoid further infections. Through learning all those procedures in the class, I will have the
confidence to dress the wound and be sure that no complications will arise due to the activity
performed. Learnings needs are also essential because I believe I will complete the task diligently
(Birks et al., 2016).
3. Describe the learning activities (educational, coaching and mentoring opportunities) you will
undertake in order to be able to perform this skill successfully in the future
To be able to perform this skill successfully in the future, I will have to undertake learning activities.
The continuous professional development will allow me to engage in adding knowledge on how to
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manage all types of wounds. This is because, in school, we only practiced dressing cut wounds
from either arm or leg. In this, I will consult wound specialists so that I can learn more hints on how I
am supposed to dress all types of wounds. Moreover, I will learn more techniques on how to reduce
pain on the wounds, the care required to manage wounds so that I can advise my client's on how to
do. Moreover, I will utilise learning resources to know more about wounds (Wilson et al., 2018).
Conclusion
It is evident that standards and decision-making framework help nurses in their profession; in this, it
enables nurses to make their decisions even when faced with challenging tasks to perform. As a
registered nurse, one should have knowledge, skills, and be confident to present to offer all care
concerning patients in health care. Moreover, acquiring more education enables the registered
nurse to solve many health issues in the health sector.
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