NRSG138 Transition to Nursing: Roach's Theory and NMBA Standards

This essay provides an overview of Sister Roach's Caring Theory, focusing on the critical dimensions of competence, compassion, and confidence in nursing practice. It highlights the significance of these attributes in enabling nurses to provide safe, responsive, and high-quality care to patients. The essay also connects Roach's theory with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) code of conduct, emphasizing the importance of ethical behavior, professional boundaries, and culturally safe practice. Furthermore, it discusses how the code supports nurses in demonstrating compassion, maintaining competence, and ensuring patient well-being, particularly in end-of-life care and interprofessional relationships. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources for students.

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• Sister roach stated that caring is the mode of connection between human being.
Caring is an action that nurtures and fosters growth to vulnerable individuals.
Roaches highlighted six crucial aspects of caring which enable nurses to provide
responsive and safe care.
• These aspects include Compassion, Competence, Conscience, Confidence,
Commitment, and Comportment (Baillie, 2017).
• These attributes enable the nurse to provide high quality, safe and responsive care
for promoting the wellbeing of the individuals.
• Nurses are required to recognize the impending deterioration of the patient and
also assist in preparing the family of the patient about the forthcoming events.
• This paper will discuss three dimensions of roach’s care.
Competence:
ROACH’S CARING THEORY
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Introduction Compassion:
• Competence is highlighted as one of the crucial
attributes of care which enables nurses to provide the
safe and responsive high quality of care to the person
who is using services.
• A competent nurse is free from the anxiety of what is
required to do in order to provide the best therapeutic
interventions.
Association with NMBA standard
• The NMBA code of conduct Lawful behaviour,
highlighted the importance of ethical behavior of nurses
where nurses are required to competent to “relevant
poisons legislation, authorization, local policy
………..products.”
• The code of conduct Decision-making enables nurses
to be competent enough to support the patient,
incorporate the family members .
• According to code of conduct Culturally safe and
respectful practice, nurses should be competent
enough to provide culturally competent care.
• Another crucial component of care is compassion
which reflects the empathy sensitivity to human pain
and joy.
• . Compassion enables the nurses to prioritize
patients not only on the bio-psycho-social level but
also on the spiritual level. (Cusack, 2017).
• According to code of conduct Effective
communication nurses can be compassionate by
being “non-judgmental …..bullying or harassment
and/or culturally unsafe.
• The code enables nurses to be compassionate by
being kind and honest to the patient, showing
respect and empathy to the patient by respecting
“the confidentiality and privacy of people
………..possible”.
• The nurses are required to be compassionate
towards their colleagues by following code Your
and your colleagues’ health.
• ”.
Association with NMBA standard
Association with NMBA standard
• Confidence is the third attribute of care which is
required to display by nurses to ensure that every
patient gets the best responsive and safe health
care services..
confidence
Association with NMBA standard
• According to code of conduct End-of-life
care, the nurses can show confidence while
handling patient who requires end of life
care.
• According to code of conduct Professional
boundaries, nurses are required to. “Actively
manage ……..the person for when the
episode of care ends”.