Care Practitioners Report: Nursing and Midwifery Council Guidelines

This report delves into critical aspects of care practice, focusing on guiding colleagues in maintaining professional standards, understanding the impact of cultural differences on care delivery, and the importance of individualized patient treatment. It explores the role of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2010 Code of Conduct in ensuring patient well-being and the significance of evidence hierarchy in informing evidence-based practice. The report emphasizes the need for care providers to support each other, recognize cultural variations, and treat each patient as an individual with unique needs. It also highlights the importance of adhering to the NMC code to prevent harm and the use of evidence hierarchy to enhance communication and improve care quality. The report references various books and journals to support its findings, providing a comprehensive overview of key considerations for care practitioners.

Care Practitioners

Table of Contents
1. Guide/support a colleague to maintain a good professional practice......................................1
2. How cultural differences influences on the delivery of care...................................................1
3. Importance of treating each patient INDIVIDUAL................................................................2
4. Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2010 Code of Conduct states workers must always
make sure actions, omissions do not harm an individual's health and well being......................3
5. What is evidence hierarchy and how does this inform evidence based practice.....................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

1. Guide/support a colleague to maintain a good professional practice
It is evident that carrying out good professional relationship helps workers to enhance
their capability and thus improve skills and knowledge to render the best quality services to
patients in care setting. However, care providers is required to follow proper ethical code of
conduct in regard to support and guide other care workers in relation to maintain good
professional practice so that quality services can be delivered to patients (Scott and Foster,
2013). Each and every care worker aims to use appropriate code of practice and inform service
users regarding the quality services to be delivered so that their expectations could be fulfilled.
For instance, it is significant for care workers to guide and support each other in regard to
provide best care services to patients so that they can maintain good professional practice and
thus develop trust and confidence among care providers.
Furthermore, it is essential for care workers in HSC to assess the training needs of
colleague and render them the best services to patients. Also, maintaining good professional
relationship results in creating friendship and positive work culture so that several other benefits
can be delivered to them (Houle and et. al., 2012). Health care workers require guiding and
supporting colleague so that they can enhance their professional practice in relation to make the
work environment happier and productive. For instance, it is significant for care workers to
assess the needs and wants of other colleagues so that they can develop professional relationship
and develop innovative and creative work environment so that best results can be attained. Also,
Continuing Professional Practice is carried out which is a lifelong learning helps in improving
professional relationship with other colleagues and thus improve their relation so that appropriate
results can be attained. Creating professional relationship helps in understanding each other
effectively and thus perform efficiently in regard to render the best quality services to care users
(Woolfenden and et. al., 2015).
2. How cultural differences influences on the delivery of care
Culture involves beliefs and values shared by one individual within society. However, all
culture possess similar systems of health beliefs so that appropriate health care facilities could be
rendered to patients without affecting their health. Also, proper training needs to be given to care
providers so that they can render similar services to every individual without carrying out any
cultural differences (McSherry and et. al., 2012). For instance, African, Asian and Western
culture lies differences but while delivering care services it is essential for care providers to
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overcome such beliefs and render the best quality care services to patients in regard to overcome
the health issues. However, Asians involves high ethnic groups and thus service providers aim to
identify the cultural belief of patient and does not affect them in any case so that appropriate
quality services could be delivered to patients. Thus, cultural differences does not affect the
health or service delivery of care in regard to promote health care facilities within care setting.
However, there is one way through which cultural differences could be avoided through
balancing the new and old belief and thus developing a tailoring made treatment plan for patients
in order to provide them best care facilities to patients so that best services can be rendered to
care users (Selby and et. al., 2015).
Moreover, within Western culture there are no differences occurs in rendering quality of
care to patients and thus it is essential for service providers to identify the culture belief of
patients and does not affect it. For instance, in Asian regions i.e. India and Pakistan there are
various cultural beliefs regarding illness and thus it affects the health services provided by care
professionals and affect their cultural belief (Wang, Miller and Jampel, 2013). Therefore, it is
essential for care providers to maintain trust and relationship among care users and providers so
that better services can be rendered to them.
3. Importance of treating each patient INDIVIDUAL
It is essential for care providers to treat each and every patient as an individual and thus
render them appropriate quality of services so that satisfaction can be gained. For instance, it is
crucial for care giver to analyse the needs of every care worker effectively and thus provide them
services accordingly. However, rendering services to mental patient will differ from patient
suffering from physically disabled (Varyani and et. al., 2013). Thus, it is essential for service
providers to treat mental patients effectively by identifying their needs and wants and providing
them best care services to enhance their satisfaction. Also, it is significant for care providers to
give more importance to mental patients as they are unable to assess and evaluate the importance
of identifying the requirements and also they could get harm or injury within care setting.
Therefore, proper care services requires to be delivered to patients with different health
problems.
On the other hand, patients suffering from physical disability requires to be treated
significantly such as they need to provide proper care and support by care givers. For instance,
they need to be rendered support so that they do not fall within care setting or get injury due to
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their physical disability. Therefore, it is essential for care providers to identify their needs and
thus provide them proper wheelchair etc. so that they do not get hurt within care home. Also, it is
essential for health care practitioners to render the best quality services to old patients when
treating them. It is essential for care home to treat old patients efficiently because they are unable
to carry out their daily routine work and thus affect their health. Hence, it is essential for care
givers to give the best facilities to old patients as compared to young patients and thus improve
their living conditions in HSC (White, Jordens and Kerridge, 2014).
4. Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2010 Code of Conduct states workers must always
make sure actions, omissions do not harm an individual's health and well being
Nursing and Midwifery Council is significant because it helps nurses and midwifery
Council to undertake proper code of conduct regarding delivering quality services to patients and
does not harm them through any actions or omissions. There are various type of omissions such
as improper health care practices, illness etc. affects the care users and thus it could prove to be
harmful for patients (Schachter and et. al., 2009). Therefore, it is essential for care providers to
take due care and support by following NMC 2010 and thus overcome the actions and omissions
that could harm the individuals' health and well being. Moreover, it is crucial for nurses and
midwives to undertake proper code of conduct so that they can ensure that their actions does not
harm patients health and well being.
Moreover, NMC 2010 Code of Conduct assesses that health care workers needs to
undertake proper methods that could not affect the health of care users. While, if any service is
provided by care professionals needs to undertake appropriate safety and security otherwise it
could harm the health and well being of patients (Selby and et. al., 2015). Thus, Nurses and
Midwives requires rendering the best care and support otherwise the consequences would result
into affecting the health of care users. However, if NMC would not apply than it results into
influencing the health conditions of patients in care setting and thus results in bad health and
illness of patients. For instance, when NMC code is broken then it leads to affect the health of
service users due to implementing improper action (Woolfenden and et. al., 2015).
5. What is evidence hierarchy and how does this inform evidence based practice
Evidence hierarchy is considered as the level through which information could be shared
among each other and thus carry out best practices so that appropriate results can be attained.
However, it is significant for health care setting to render best service quality. Also, it is crucial
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for care professional to enhance the evidence hierarchy and thus improve their applications
which results in informing evidence based practice so that proper information could be delivered
to care users (Scott and Foster, 2013). Here, appropriate plan for developing hierarchy needs to
be done and thus influences the needs of services users so that best results can be maintained.
Furthermore, evidence hierarchy helps in building effective and clear communication in
regard to discuss different researches and thus conduct a systematic review so that proper design
and quality needs to be maintained in regard to inform appropriate services to care users.
However, such evidence hierarchy could be easily informed through carrying out evidence based
practice and thus results into informing the best communication practices that leads to enhance
business performance in care setting (Houle and et. al., 2012). It also aids in allowing businesses
to make clear communication so that quality services can be delivered to individuals and thus
best results can be attained. Thus, improving evidence hierarchy would result in improving
efficiency of care practitioners and thus attain best services to care users.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Houle, S.K. and et. al., 2012. Does performance-based remuneration for individual health care
practitioners affect patient care?: a systematic review. Annals of internal medicine.
157(12). pp.889-899.
McSherry, L.A. and et. al., 2012. ‘It’sa can of worms’: understanding primary care practitioners’
behaviours in relation to HPV using the theoretical domains framework. Implementation
Science. 7(1). pp.1.
Scott, T. and Foster, T., 2013. Assessing carbon monoxide poisoning: Tricia Scott and Theresa
Foster explain how emergency care practitioners can test whether patients have been
exposed to this common but highly toxic gas.Emergency Nurse. 20(10). pp.14-19.
Selby, P. and et. al., 2015. Review and evaluation of online tobacco dependence treatment
training programs for health care practitioners. Journal of medical Internet research. 17(4).
pp.e97.
Varyani, F. and et. al., 2013. The communication of a secondary care diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis to primary care practitioners: a population-based study. BMC health services
research. 13(1). pp.1.
Wang, R., Miller, R. and Jampel, H., 2013. How Maryland Eye Care Practitioners Complete the
Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) Vision Screening Form. Investigative
Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 54(15). pp.5339-5339.
White, K.L., Jordens, C.F. and Kerridge, I., 2014. Contextualising professional ethics: The
impact of the prison context on the practices and norms of health care
practitioners. Journal of bioethical inquiry. 11(3). pp.333-345.
Woolfenden, S. and et. al., 2015. How do primary health-care practitioners identify and manage
communication impairments in preschool children?. Australian journal of primary health.
21(2). pp.176-181.
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