Australian Healthcare System: Nursing Practices and Guidelines

This report provides a comprehensive overview of nursing practices within the Australian healthcare system, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of enrolled nurses (ENs). It examines the Enrolled Nurses Standard for Practice (2016), detailing collaborative practices, provision of care, and reflective and analytical approaches. The report further analyzes the Decision-Making Framework Nursing Flowchart (2013) and the Decision-Making Framework Nursing Summary Guide (2010), emphasizing lawful practices, risk management, and the importance of identifying client needs. Additionally, it explores the Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development (2016), highlighting the significance of ongoing learning, ethical practices, and effective CPD planning to maintain high standards of nursing care. The report underscores the crucial role of ENs in healthcare operations and their impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare services in Australia.

Practice nursing within the
Australian health care system

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body..............................................................................................................................1
Enrolled Nurses Standard for practice (2016)........................................................................1
Decision making framework nursing flowchart (2013).........................................................3
Decision making framework nursing summery guide (2010)................................................4
Guidelines for continuing the professional Development (2016)..........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Nursing is a very essential and crucial part of the various functions that helps in the better
handling of the different operations that leads to the better rise in the various operations, which
increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations in a better way. This report will cover
the significant rise in the better handling of the different operations by the nursing staff of a
health care in Australia. It helps in the better handling of functions using the Decision making
flowchart. The Decision making framework nursing summery guide and Guidelines for
Continuing professional development has been taken into effective consideration for the
developing portfolio of Enrolled nurses or EN.
Main Body
Enrolled Nurses Standard for practice (2016)
It will involve range of practices that will help in better handling of the various
operations in a better way. This document involves the different practices and measures that are
required to be followed for better nursing practices. Some collaborative measures that have been
taken into effective consideration are as follows:
Professional and collaborative practices: This involves the better management of the various
operations that helps in the better management of the various operations that will lead to the
various nursing and professional practices that have been taken into effective consideration. It
involves the better measures that help in the effective execution of the nursing practices. This
leads to better understanding of responsibility and maintaining the superior practices of nursing
as well as increasing the productivity, dignity, creativity and respect of the people they hold. It
involves the various legal policies and practices that help in the better handling of the nursing
operations and the legal aspects that governs them. For example, it will help in gaining the better
understanding of the various needs and requirements of different patients at health and social
care. Some basic indicators of professional and collaborative practices are:
 Understanding of the common laws that prevails in the nursing practices.
 Better undertaking of EN practices.
 Better implications of the code of conduct, guidelines and policies applicable to the
nursing.
 Identification of own limitations and competencies plus seeking the effective guidance.
 Ensuring the safe outcomes to protect people and identify the risk of potentials.
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 Keeping intact the rights and duties of people and holding better negotiations.
Provision of care: It is related to the intrinsic care of individual and groups entrusted by ENs.
This encompasses all the aspects of care from assessment to engagement in the services
(Enrolled nurse standards for practice. (2016)). Besides this, it helps in the effective rise in the
measures related to health education and evaluation of its outcomes. Some standards that have
been followed are:
 Interpretation of the information from the range of sources to plan the appropriate care
measures.
 Collaboration with seniors, higher authorities, patients and health care team to develop
better health care services.
 Conducting good communication and utilisation of the documentation to inform and
report care services.
 Involvement in decision making.
 Cultural safeguarding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people along with the
people of other cultures.
 Building of better relationship and communication with the patients and other employees
at the nursing home.
 Recognition of the professional boundaries by considering the privacy, dignity and
confidentiality in providing health care services to patients.
 Providing better health care services regardless to birth, ethnicity, culture, religion, age
gender, sexuality, physical or mental state or beliefs, without any difference.
Reflective and analytical practices: It helps in building better relations with the ability and
measures which supports in proper handling of the evidence based practices and ensure effective
fulfilment of physical mental and psychological needs of the people. This assists in the effective
following of the research evidences and practising the better quality of safety and high quality
standards of guidelines. Besides this, it supports the ongoing development of an EN as a good
nursing professional. It involves the practices like collection of effective data, its interpretation,
utilisation and development plus monitoring of the effective health care team. Other than this,
they will look after the effective utilisation of the health care technologies, to give better health
care outcomes. Other than this, it involves the proper training and education processes that help
in the better management of the effective solutions in the nursing care. For instance, good
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reflective practices will help in identification of the self-efficiency and effectiveness of the
operations performed at the workplace.
Decision making framework nursing flowchart (2013)
Based on this framework, it can be said that the effective measures have been taken into
significant consideration that will help in better management of the various operations related to
nursing and the effective rise in the operational efficiency of the company. It involves the
different aspects or the sections of the operations that have been followed for the better
management of the different operations in the company. It involves the good integration of the
lawful practices and effective risk management. The better preparation of different operations
will also help in the good handling of different operations that will help in rise of increase in
professional efficiency and better understanding of operations. The rise in confidence level and
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Illustration 1: Nursing practice decision making flowchart

compatibility will also help in better management of various functions that will lead to the
significant rise in different operations and handling of the supervision and professional activities
and functions (Guidelines of Continuing Professional Development. (2016).
It leads to the achievement of the better professional outcomes and provides effective
benefits to the clients or the patients that will help in the better rise in the operation's
effectiveness. Other than this, it helps in the better management of resources an information and
helps EN to report to effective and appropriate persons at authority at nursing department,
leading to effective assessment of competence. Also, it helps the nurses to accept the delegation
and accountability to improve the quality of the nursing services provided. It increases the better
delivery of education and effective providing of the training measures that will help in the good
rise in the efficiency and effectiveness of nursing staff at the health care centre. Apart from this,
it improves the scope of practising and organisational capacity of workforce and helps them in
meeting the requirements of the company. The framework also provides them with the effective
idea about the preparation and essential experience to carry out different operations at health
care.
Decision making framework nursing summery guide (2010)
The Decision making framework nursing summery guide will help the ENs to identify
and consider the effective measures that will help in better management of various operations
that will lead to rise in productivity and profitability. This guide will help the EN to take into
consideration the effective and significant measures that will help in the better rise of the
operational quality of the nursing staff and help them in meeting the needs and demands of the
client or patients at the health care. This guide will help in the better understanding of the various
factors or standards that have been followed at a health care centre and the consequences or
effects of following and avoiding them. It involves the following factors:
 Identify client needs and benefits: It will lead to the identification of the various needs
and requirements of the client or patient, providing them of the better consultation and
identification of the client's best interests, will help in the effective growth of nursing
staff especially ENs to meet the operational requirements in a good way.
 Reflection on various scope of practices and standards of nursing practices: This will
help EN to get effective idea about the various practices and its legal requirements. They
will also look after all the authorisation of any sort of nursing function or activity and its
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availability before the execution of the process. They will also look after the effective rise
in the various operations that will help in the better meeting of the practice standards and
evidences to improve the effectiveness of the company. Besides this, it helps them to be
available for helping in the better supervision and performance of the various activities
and functions at the health care centre. Considering context of practices and organisational support: The EN will effectively
look after that the processes that have been taken into effective consideration by them
will help in growth of organisation. They will see through the better achieving of the
authorisation before the performing various nursing practices. This will also help them to
take into consideration the proper measures that will lead to the safe execution of the
various operations. They will see through the identification of the different potential risks
and the effective handling of the ongoing practices(Nursing practice decisions summary
guide. (2010)).
 Selecting the proper and Contempt person to perform an activity: The EN or the
management of the health care will look after the better management of the various
operations that are been provided in the good way to meet the requirements of the clients
or patients. Besides this, they will see through the level of education and having the better
understanding of the accountability. This processes will lead to the effective evaluation of
different actions performed by nursing staff.
Guidelines for continuing the professional Development (2016)
The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) will help the firm to develop the
overall efficiency of the nursing staff and will see through the better handling of the various
operations that will help in the effective management of different functions at health care. They
will look after the effective learning and training process, which is a lifetime learning process it
helps them to maintain the standard of their services and practices. Besides this, it will broaden
their professional development. Besides this, it helps them to meet their obligation and help them
to provide ethical, effective and competent practices that will help in the better execution of the
various practices. Other than this, the ENs will perform the effective CPD planning to get
positive learning outcomes and changes to be taken into the practices of nursing services.
The effective planning of CPD will involve the following factors:
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 Best practices of the different measures to maintain the decided standard of the nursing
practices.
 It also helps in the better identification of various measures and practices that will help in
the significant handling of the different operations.
Besides this, the effective following of the CPD cycle will help in the better management
of the various operations that will help in the better rise in the different functions and will lead to
the effective learning of a range of practices. Other than this, the CPD process helps in the
effective management of the significant record keeping and templates that will help in the better
management of various operations (Nursing practice decisions flowchart. (2013))). It helps in the
better self-reflection approach and development of the effective learning practices that will
increase the knowledge and skills of the employees at health care. Besides this, it also lays a
deep impact on the various activities and the operations that have been taken into effective
consideration. For example, the better management of the different operations will help in the
significant rise in efficiency of the nursing staff and help them to fulfil the needs and demands of
the enrolled nurses. This helps in the better handling of the different issues and glitches that will
help in effective management of functions at health care.
CONCLUSION
Thus, it can be concluded that enrolled nurses play a very crucial and significant role in
the effective execution of various operations at health care. The report covers the details of
different standards of practices and impact of the decision making processes along with the
guides and measures of effective CPD. This will help in increasing the efficiency and skill set of
the employees or working nursing staff.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Enrolled nurse standards for practice. (2016). [Online]. Available through:
<file:///home/user/Downloads/Nursing-and-Midwifery-Board---Standards-for-Practice---
Enrolled-Nurses.PDF>.
Guidelines of Continuing Professional Development. (2016). [Online]. Available through:
<file:///home/user/Downloads/Nursing-and-Midwifery-Board---Guidelines---Continuing-
professional-development---1-February-2016.PDF>.
Nursing practice decisions summary guide. (2010). [Online]. Available through:
<file:///home/user/Downloads/10_DMF-A4-Nursing-Summary-Guide-Final-2010.PDF>.
Nursing practice decisions flowchart. (2013). [Online]. Available through:
<file:///home/user/Downloads/Nursing-and-Midwifery-Board---Codes-and-Guidelines---
Nursing-practice-decision-flowchart-2013.PDF>.
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