1. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (The National Law 2009) has great importance on the governance of the conduct of registered and enrolled nurses.
The National Law allows national boards to manage the development of health profession standards.
The National Law has requirement for national boards to enterprise wide range consultation on registration standards, codes and guidelines.
The National Law organise a national scheme which include registration arrangement, accreditation arrangement, complaints, conducts, health and performance arrangements, privacy and information-sharing arrangement and transitional arrangements.
2. (a). Two legislations that …show more content…
Four domains of the National Competency Standards for Enrolled Nurse are: -
(a) Professional and Ethical practices: Enrolled Nurses work according to legislation, policies and procedures to demonstrate knowledge of legislation and common law, organizational policies and procedure, fulfill the duty of care, report practices that may breach legislations, polices and procedures. ENs performs in ethical way, respect the rights of individual and groups, and accept accountability and responsibility for own actions within enrolled nursing practices. (b) Critical thinking and analysis: Enrolled nurses establish critical thinking to perform enrolled nursing practice by assessing own performance through nursing standards, by self professional development, by own care. (c) Management of care: Enrolled nurses participate to form care plans with RN through accurate data collection and report of health and functional status of individuals and groups, through identification of expected healthcare outcomes, through evaluation of progress of individuals and groups to achieve expected outcomes with RN. ENs manage nursing care of individuals and groups by implementing planned nursing care to get identified outcomes, by recognizing any change in health and functional status, report and document it accurately and on …show more content…
Enrolled nurses provide support and care to individuals and groups and participate with members of healthcare team to achieve effective healthcare outcomes.
4. The NMBA new Code of Ethics August 2008 define the nursing profession’s commitment to respect, promote, protect and support the fundamental rights od receiver and provider of nursing and healthcare. Its impact on practice of enrolled nurses is to:
Provide quality nursing care, taking action on reasonable ground
Respect the individual’s ethical values with gentleness
Understand different culture and languages influence the nursing and healthcare
Demonstrate the ability to reasonably and equitably provide services depends on needs, social standings, ethnicity, age, race, level of income, gender
Support culture of safety because safety is everyone’s responsibility
Document all information accurately, non-judgmentally and relevant to health, acre and treatment of a person and should be confidential
Prevent, minimize and overcome the harmful effect of economic, social or ecological factors on health
Promote and maintain the trust between nurse care