Nursing Essay: NSQHS Standards, RN Role, Significance in Healthcare

This essay provides an overview of nursing practices, focusing on the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards and the role of Registered Nurses (RNs) in healthcare. The essay explores the NSQHS standards, including clinical governance, partnering with customers, infection control, medication safety, comprehensive care, clinical handover, blood products, pressure injury management, and fall prevention. It highlights the crucial role of RNs in implementing these standards, particularly in preventing falls and managing pressure injuries. The essay emphasizes the significance of fall prevention and patient partnerships in enhancing healthcare quality and patient outcomes. The conclusion summarizes the key points, underscoring the importance of NSQHS standards and RN contributions to safe and effective nursing care, ultimately aiming to improve patient health and well-being.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
NSQHS standards........................................................................................................................3
Role of Registered nurse..............................................................................................................5
Significance of two National safety and quality health service areas-........................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Nursing practice is number of roles, responsibilities, functions which a registered nurse is
competent, educated and have authority to perform in health care centers. Nursing practice is
support by values that guide the best ways in which nursing care is offer. In these practices
nurses provide better health care services to people that help to improve their health. The present
essay is based on nursing practices and explain NSQHS standards. This essay clarifies National
Safety and Quality Health Service standard contribution to quality in health care. It justifies role
of registered nurse in two NSQHS areas and explain significance of two chosen areas to nursing
care provision.
MAIN BODY
NSQHS standards
NSQHS standards were formulated by the Australian Commission on quality and safety
in health care in collaboration with Australian authorities, territories and states, clinical experts,
private sector, carers and patients (Perriman & Davis, 2016). The main aim of National Safety
and Quality Health Services standards it to protect people form any serious harm and improve
service or quality of health facility provision. With the help of quality assurance mechanism they
test that relevant systems are in right place, this process assure them about standards of quality
and safety is met as expectation. 10 NSQHS standards concentrating on areas that are important
to drive implementation and use of quality and safety systems:
Standard 1 Clinical governance- it is one of the first NSQHS standards that refers to health
service firms process of providing patient health care facilities. Each health and safety care
organizations need to follow or adopt all the standards in their business structure. Authority and
leaders in health service company is responsible to provide good services and focus on their
safety during treatments that contribute in continuous health care improvement of community
and public.
Standard 2 Partnering with customers- The second standards is partnering with patients, in
which RN of health service center and other staff member develop, maintain and implement
system to collaborate with consumers (Levada and et.al., 2015). It will help to know about their
problems and contribute to understand their needs in health care service that keep quality better
more than now.

Standard 3 Controlling and preventing healthcare- under these standard Health care centers
focuses on controlling and preventing associated infections. They need to implement, describe
and monitor health service program to control and prevent antimicrobial resistance that
contribute in reducing harm on people health and gain positive results for patients.
Standard 4 Medication safety- this standards goals to assure that health care practician safely
dispense and prescribe proper medicines to patient and monitor medicine used by people. Under
this stage Clinicians monitor entire health care service system to reduce occurrence of
medication incidents that help to improve quality and safety of medicines use.
Standard 5 Comprehensive care- The aim of this standard is to assure that patients acquire
comprehensive health care service that meets with individual wants and considers affect of
people health problems on their well being and life. Thus, according to these regulation health
service provider maintain and establish processes and systems to help clinicians to give
comprehensive and quality in healthcare.
Standard 6 Clinical Handover- This standard refers to transfer process of accountability and
professional responsibilities in which health care center handover all the aspects of care about
patients to professional team and other person who have all the knowledge in regard to deliver
quality health care service (Pascoe, Gill, Hughes & McCall-White, 2014).
Standard 7 Blood products- National safety and quality health care standard seven refers to the
process of monitoring blood transfusion. Health service centers monitor and implement safe
blood transaction procedure that help to provide safe blood to patients at needed time period.
Standard 8 Managing and preventing pressure injuries- Prevention and managing pressure
injuries is one of the most essential things for health service organization. Staff members and
Registered nurses take care about people who are facing pressures injury. By complying these
standards' healthcare centers maintain the quality of health care.
Standard 9 Responding and recognizing to clinical deterioration in acute healthcare- The
aims of this standard is to assure that acute deterioration in person's mental, physical and
cognitive situation is recognized appropriately and prompt action is taken. Health service
providers follow these standard in which they will improve quality of health care and maintain
system that help to give good respond to acute healthcare.
Standard 10 Preventing falls and harm form fall- Fall incidents or injuries within health care
organization or in hospitals have increased steadily which affect individuals who falls. This

standard refers to the prevention method of care centers in which they need to focuses on
preventing patients form falls and give good treatment to them for improving their health and
recovery damage tissues. NSQHS all standards contribute to improve quality of healthcare
services and also help to reduce risk of any harm.
Role of Registered nurse
RN is a nurse who graduated for program of nursing and met essentials outlined by state,
country or related to licensing body to obtain nursing license. They are specialized in nursing
practice field and responsible for directing care delivered by another healthcare employees,
including licensed practical nurses and less experienced Registered nurses. They focus on caring
for sick patients and educating them and their family members about fast health recovery and
provide service for preventing from diseases (Choi, Cheung & Pang, 2014). They also guide
ways of prevention of harmful disease which affect people health and make them ill. Registered
nurses play crucial and dynamic role in health care institutes or person well fare centered. They
are responsible for diagnosing illnesses and measure patients needs. They are intrinsic part of
comprehensive standards of health and care promotion. RN execute nursing care program and
make good decisions in order to improve quality of health care services, provide safe and good
nursing practices within health well fare organization. They are able to give good caring and
superior nursing facilities which contribute for improving better health of person or patient. By
complying with common law, legislative and other healthcare standards they perform well more
and more.
RN role in context of preventing falls-
National Safety and Quality Health Services standards revolved around many areas in
relation to protect people form harm and better health care quality. Registered nurses play their
essential role in NSQHS areas where they provide effective services and treatments to patients.
They give their efforts in patient safety like fall prevention which prevent them for additional
harm while they are hospitalized. Many people in country fall in hospital and other health care
center where they get injured. Accidental falls includes patient tripping, slipping and have some
mishap that results in fall (de Mazières & et.al., 2017). Sometimes in hospital floor cleaner felt
some water on the level in organization which results in internal bleeding, fractures and other
serious injuries. Registered nurses contribute to prevent people form falls and guide them proper
prevention ways.

RN has the authority to give direction to patients and their family members in health care
centers while floor is wet. They provide appropriate guidance to people when they are going out
of room during cleaning process has been done. When registered nurse measure risk of falls they
need to inform patients about risk area where they get harm or injured. They play important role
in preventing falls in juries, nurses see the problems and pain of people created by falls. Thus,
they play role as adviser for preventing risk of injury because good advocacy aware patient what
they need to do for preventing and less harm form falls.
Registered role in managing pressure injury-
Pressure injuries are the injury to underlying tissue and damage skin caused by friction or
constant pressure. This type of tissues damage develop rapidly in anyone with reduced mobility,
such as those people that confined to chair or bed and older ones. Registered nurses play
important role in managing and preventing people pressure injury and help to provide better
healthcare treatments while treating them. They offering them all the facility which help to
reduce their pain and make them feel comfortable. They provide patients proper guidance who to
take care about their pressure injuries and which exercises they need to do to improve damage
tissues. RN provides the finest care to people who are injured at risk and with pressure injury and
best to promote their prevention. They tell them how to reduce pain and keep skin stay health
and less damaged.
Registered nurses managing pressure injuries via following NSQHS standards of
managing and preventing pressure injury (Gilbert & et.al., 2017). They provide primary
treatments to patients who get injured due to falls or slip on floor or ground. They need to
communicate with people that help to distract their mind form pain.
Significance of two National safety and quality health service areas-
Preventing falls and harm form falls-
Health care professionals are required to prevent patients from harm of fall, as it will help
in minimizing risk form falls and reduce high level of serious injury.
Among older people, falls is the leading cause of health injury and reason of deaths.
Minor or major falls trigger a fear of older persons falling, leading to limit their activity and lose
independence and their strength (Caplan, Kurrle & Cumming, 2016). In hospitals falls incidents
happen during the process of cleaning floors. Lack of monitoring is the reason that increase risk

of falls and damage skin tissues. It is very essential for staff of health care organization to
prevent fall injuries and harm form it. Fall is sudden incident which outcomes in individual
coming to rest unwittingly on floor or ground or other lower level. Strategies for preventing falls
such as screening and monitoring help to reduce harm from falls and falls. Prevention of falls
improve quality of health care and minimize risk of falls when they occur. Registered nurses and
other staff members focuses on each and every service of health care centers and guide people
about the place where risk of falls is high. During cleaning process staff need to inform people
about falls risk or areas where they get injured the most. Prevention is significance to nursing
care provision in which all the members take care about their patient and make prevention plans
for them in place where risk of falling is higher. Poor balance, reduced bone density is the risk
factor that create fall situation and harm people.
Partnering with customers-
Health care organizations and their staff are required to partnering with their customers,
as it contribute for knowing their needs and fulfill expectations.
Partnering with patients is one of the most effective way to know more about consumers
and make them happy and satisfied with the services (Butenko, Lockwood & McArthur, 2015).
Patients partnership is longer term commitment to health service centers based on understanding
individual patient values and expectations. With the help of partnering health care organizations
gain people trusts and build good relationship with them. Registered nurses play an important
role in making good connection with patients which make them feel comfy. While pressure
injury and other injuries people get harm and it impacts on their healthy living standards (Vieira,
Palmer & Chaves, 2016). In this moment good communication and collaboration work
effectively and help to know about patient pain which they got due to harmful injury. Health
service firms staff make partnering with its patients as it know what they want and what is their
outlook.
CONCLUSION
The present essay discuss about the nursing practices and role of registered nurses in
context of preventing falls and harm form fall and preventing and managing pressure injury. This
essay cover all the information about National Safety and Quality Health Service standards
which has to be followed by health service organization to reduce risk in health of person. The

current essay discussed about importance of preventing pressure injury in which health care
center and registered nurses provide their best facilities to get better outcomes. Furthermore, it
discusses about significant of managing pressure injuries in hospital and in context of nursing
practices.

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