An Analysis of NMC Code, Legal and Ethical Principles in Nursing

This report delves into the significance of the NMC Code in nursing practice, examining its role in shaping professional and ethical values within the medical field. It addresses the critical thinking required for maintaining high-quality clinical practices, emphasizing the importance of legal and ethical principles in healthcare decision-making, particularly in safeguarding vulnerable adults. The report explores the application of these principles to ensure safe and effective healthcare services, while also identifying the scope and limitations of a healthcare assistant's role in safeguarding the public. The discussion covers the NMC Code's standards for professional values, quality, accountability, and maintaining patient dignity, as well as the ethical considerations of confidentiality and the role of health care assistants in adhering to the legal framework. The report references the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidelines and other relevant literature, discussing the importance of training and professional development in ethical roles and responsibilities. It highlights the increasing demand for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, ensuring better policies and procedures underpinned by effective operational guidance.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
The NMC Code and nursing practice..........................................................................................3
Discuss knowledge of legal and ethical principles in relation to your clinical practice..............4
Scope and limitations of your current role of health care assistant in safeguarding the public...4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
The assignment will focus on the NMC Code and nursing practice which considered the
professional body that help for determine the both professional and ethical value in the medical
profession, discuss about the multiple thinking that are required for maintaining high quality of
clinical practices.
Furthermore, it will examine the judgment on the basis of legal as well as ethical principle
in the current clinical practices. The legal as well as ethical principles are mainly used by nurse
in providing the safeguarding for vulnerable adults. In order to make important decision related
to the improvement. In this way, it will be avoiding the adverse events and patient harm. The
clinical practices will be considering the ability to provide safe, health care services. However, it
will consider the specific code of conduct to maintain the legal principles while identifying
scope, limitation in term of safeguarding the public.
MAIN BODY
The NMC Code and nursing practice
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is based on the professional body that help for
determine the professional as well as ethical value in the medical profession. Usually, it is
covered the ethical needs and also maintain personal duties of nurses in UK. The registered nurse
in NMC that must adopt code in order to focus on nursing practise (Barton, 2019). NMC is
mainly focused on the need or requirement for nurse which help to proficient in skills,
knowledge and conduct. The ethical patient management can be achieved by meeting all demand
of profession (Rubio-Navarro, Garcia-Capilla and Rutty, 2019). This type of code server as key
guideline for maintaining ethical patient management.
From NMC, (2018) Registered nurses plays important role in providing, coordinating and
leading care which become compassionate, evidence-based. In order to perform the different
actions and must able to work with proper manner. The nurses make an important contribution in
term of health promotion, protection and prevention of illness. The registered nurses give
leadership in term delivery of health care service of all age groups (Cannaby and Owen, 2020). It
is mainly focused on the physical, mental, cognitive as well as behavioural care. Sometimes, it is
difficult for maintaining the overall health care services. Furthermore, it has been considered the
standards of proficiency which applied on the NMS registered Nurses.
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Health care professional such as Nurses that have a formal obligation in relation to value
which placed upon them by other regulatory councils. According to the code of NMC 2008, it
has been set up the significant standards for maintaining the professional values (Rubio-Navarro,
Garcia-Capilla and Rutty, 2019). A good practice against which registered nurses or midwives
that would be measure in the professional misconduct. The code of conduct also setting the
expected standards in relation to professional value, quality and accountability. In this way, it
can be identified the care, safety and maintain the dignity of patient (Fisher and et.al., 2019). The
registered nurses should be considered the code of conduct to manage their responsibilities and
handle the primary duties towards Safeguarding for vulnerable adults (Rubio-Navarro, Garcia-
Capilla and Rutty, 2019). However, this legislation will support for highlighting the medical
professional community and health care firm working together.
Safeguarding adults which become important for everyone health service provider and
other practice nurse that have professional duties. Generally, it is mainly directed the by nursing
and Midwifery Council (Cannaby and Owen, 2020). It should able to protect and promote the
right of patient who are not able to protect themselves. It important for vulnerable adults that are
kept as safe as possible. It may involve in safeguarding decisions.
Safeguarding adults is consider the complex arena which incorporating the assessment of
individual’s requirement, working with other agencies through person-centred ways.
Furthermore, it has identified that evidence based practice of medicine administration which
always committed towards the different practises.
in order to take steps and protect providing the better safeguarding. Sometimes, it may
include the staff member who are responsible for giving better treatment. The council has
committed to fulfil the specific need and requirement of people (Cannaby and Owen, 2020).
Nowadays, it is already increasing the demand of safeguard children and other vulnerable adults.
It ensuring the better policies and procedures which underpinned by effective operational
guidance.
Discuss knowledge of legal and ethical principles in relation to your clinical practice.
The clinical ethics is consider as principle or methodology for identifying implication of
medical policies, treatment and special attention. In order to deliver the best quality health care
Safeguarding for vulnerable adults (Hardiman and et.al., 2020). On the other hand, the current
legal framework which mainly include suitable NMC code for providing the better treatment
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facilities to patient. The registered nurse should be considered both legal as well as ethical
principle in related clinical practices.
Moreover, it should be considered the ethical as well as legal principles such as fidelity
which stands for advocacy, truthfulness towards the patient and other professionals. Nurses
should never attempt to manipulate patient and also maintain the confidence level. For instance,
it applied in health care service on the basis of NMC code and nursing practice (Millerand
Nambiar-Greenwood, 2019). In order to recognise the requirement to maintain the confidential
information or data form patient. Totality as well as integrity are considered the ethical principle
which supports for giving planning care. Sometimes, it also associated with the better treatment
despite the potential to relieve certain symptoms.
The ethical way in which providing the guideline related the accountability within NMS
for safeguarding. It also providing the training to nurse where they continuously improve
professional development. It competent to undertake their ethical roles and responsibilities. The
safeguarding means that protecting their right to live in safely. Also, support in ethical way to
give freedom. In order to express their own feelings.
Scope and limitations of your current role of health care assistant in safeguarding the public.
The health care assistant such as nurses that have an obligation to adhere legal framework
when engaging in patient health care. In order to perform the current role while giving the better
treatment facilities and services (Rubio-Navarro, Garcia-Capilla and Rutty, 2019).
The scope is that when nurse must comply with legalisation, emphasis the role of guiding
patient interaction. Sometimes, it may include the consent, respect of human right and also used
medication. Nurse will consider the healthcare intervention to associate with treatment process
while resolving complex issue or problem. NMC may also targeted by other people who have
gained to access the vulnerable adults. It ensuring that mitigate this through robust policies as
well as procedures.
Another way, it also identified the limitation of nurse current role when become difficult or
complex in term of confidentiality. For instance, patient poses a risk of server harm to him or
others. At that certain level, nurse may be obliged to share the information with members and
associated with professionally. Sometimes, it has chances to reveal the medication information in
front of third parties. In this way, it has identified the certain limitation in role of health health
care assistant during Safeguarding for vulnerable adults.
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CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has summarised about legal as well as ethical principle in the
current clinical practices. These are playing important role for managing and controlling the high
quality health care to patient. It has been concluded that avoid the adverse events and patient
harm. The clinical practices are becoming useful for providing the better safety and health care
services. However, it also used the specific code of conduct to maintain the legal principles while
identifying scope, limitation in context of safeguarding.
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REFERENCES
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Cannaby, A.M. and Owen, J., 2020. The scope and variance of clinical nurse specialist job
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Hardiman, M. and et.al., 2020. Designing and implementing an electronic nursing record to
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Miller, E. and Nambiar-Greenwood, G., 2019. TWO THE NURSE–PATIENT
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Rubio-Navarro, A., Garcia-Capilla, D.J. and Rutty, J., 2019. Ethical, legal and professional
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