Nursing in Australia:

Part B/Short Answers

Task I:
a) Purpose and significance of national competency standards for the The Australian nursing and Midwifery Accreditation council is the accreditation body that steers educational providers and courses for professionals like nurses and midwives. The previously known ANMC was established in 1992 to bring about a national approach to nursing and midwifery regulation. The ANMAC links with the state and territory nursing and midwifery authoritarians to set up certain principles which are pivotal constituent of the steering committee to aid nurses and midwives to deliver proficient care and safe and sound nursing practice. Its, professional progress and lifelong learning process formulate the nurse to put in high-quality excellence in care. To put in nut shell, the rationale for National Competency standards for the registered nurse is to put forward high quality excellence in patient care. Firstly, these competency standards weigh up and settle on the proficiency of the nurses for the once a year replenishment of their authorization process and measure the abroad nurses in Australia and also those nurses back in work after a long time. Secondly, these mainstay competency standards facilitate the concerned authority to assess nurses caught up in professional behaviour affairs and to act in accordance or vice versa. And competency standards make the consumer aware of the quality of care they can expect from a registered nurse as well. The term consumer includes patients, residents and/or their families, representatives or significant others. Thirdly, universities make use of these standards to create nursing curriculum and in the appraisal of graduates. The standards and criterion grant precise indicators for measuring whether a program executes the defined needs. Competence standards are the blend of the facts, expertise, thoughts, ethics and aptitudes that strengthen valuable performance in a profession. It encompasses self-reliance and potential to bring about wonders.

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b) Content and meaning: The International Council of Nurses definition of nursing is: Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environments, research, and participation in shaping health policy and in patients and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles. And the competency standards meet the scope of nursing practice. Nurses have to abide by pertinent legislation and law in health care system. The framework nursing has makes him/her to admit colleagues or a group despite the consequences of race, culture, religion, gender, age, physical or mental state. It simply makes nurse professionally on top form by making him/her to be acquainted with the insecure nursing practice. Its mandatory for nurses to have in service education. out the doings. A registered nurse has well thought-out the competence of the personality who will carry Processes exist for ensuring are continuing education, review of competence, and apt clinically-focused administration. whilst the responsibility of the registered nurse in general practice fluctuates according to the inhabitants profile of the general practice, the general practice arrangement, and employment structure, the registered nurse offers a hotchpotch of straight clinical care and management of clinical care systems in an atmosphere which is habitually secluded from other nurses. This necessitates that she/he works collaboratively with others, domestic and outdoor to the general practice, to endorse health care centred on individuals and groups. The registered nurse also has need of extremely profound information literacy.

Task II:
AHPRA The AHPRA is an establishment legally responsible for the registration and official approval of 10 health professions around Australia. AHPRA was launched on 1stjuly 2010. It deals with analysis into the professional conduct, performance or health of registered health practitioners on behalf of the national board, excluding in NSW. It supports the 10 national boards in employing the national registration and official
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recognition scheme. It holds up the National boards in the upliftments of registration standards and codes and strategy and it makes available guidance to the ministerial council about the running of the National Law Act 2009.AHPRA has ample range of tasks. It supports the National Boards in their crucial role of shielding the public. Their principal purpose is to cope with the registration process for health practitioners across Australia. It also consents to the public to make announcements about a registered health practitioners or students. NMBA The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) is the new-fangled national board that puts back all the preceding state based nursing boards such as NBV. The NMBA is now accountable for all Nurse Registration applications. NMBA has some significant tasks. Their foremost function is the registration of nursing and midwifery practitioners and students. It also develops the standards, codes and guidelines for the nurses and midwives. Another function of NMBA is the management of notifications, complaints, investigations and disciplinary hearings. NMBA also backs up accreditation standards and courses of study. The NMBA has established state and Territory Boards to hold the work of the National Board in the national scheme. . NMBA to employ in Australia. Comparison Both NMBA and AHPRA carry out almost same obligations. The regulatory framework both have is the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act of 2009.AHPRA is liable to provide accreditation for around ten health professions in Australia. Whereas, NMBA deals with only the registration works of nurses and midwives. The ultimate goal for both is to set up guidelines on competency standards to bring about the Best Quality Care to its members. AHPRA supports the functions of NMBA to meet the deadlines. also has an important role in weighing up the out of the country qualified practitioners who aspire

Task III: ROLE OF AUSTRALIAN NURSING FEDERATION: The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) is made up of over 200, 000 nurses who are members of the union in one of the eight branches instituted in each state and territory. In addition to the branches there is also a federal office. The federation upholds and looks after the concerns of members and in particular to grant professional and industrial leadership for the nursing industry and the health sector. It improves the industrial and legislative rights and benefits of members. Federation also represents members in industrial debates and in relation to industrial affairs. And also it plays the role of a mediator to get better the conditions of employment of members. It also helps in obtaining and securing preference in employment for the members. Federation helps to boost up the high standards of nursing practise. And federation props up the educational industrial and professional progression of nurses. Task VI RESPONSIBILITIES OF REGISTERED NURSE IN RELATION TO CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Its imperative that nurses amplify their knowledge and skills in nursing practice, by means of a system that values and measures the time and effort they put in. Nursing in Australia is commenced in an ever-changing setting. Abundant aspects contribute to the necessitates for nurses ongoing learning and experience, such as increasing consumer prospects, demographic and communal amendments, changes in the way that health professionals inter related to each other, technological developments , drastic changes in medicine, an upward emphasis on evidence-based research and preface of restorative substitutes. Nurse can only be competent enough with the cutting edge facilities if he/she updates knowledge. Nurse should have written documentation of CPD evidence. It improves and widens the knowledge and skills of nurses and midwives to provide high quality care to consumers. All nurses and midwives are obligatory to exhibit a CPD standard annually that is relevant to their content of practise. Nurse has to take part in effective learning activities to bring about excellence in patient care. To have a better outcome nurse should become conscious about the significance of inservice education.
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There are numerous ways to meet the above mentioned responsibilities. Nurse has to be aware of the contemporary issues to get those updated. And the updated knowledge should be put into practise for the benefit of consumer that is patient. The certified document has to be kept as evidence for clearance. She/he has to attend a 20hours inservice education to get registration renewed annually. TASK V THE AUSTRALIAN NURSES FEDERATION GUIDELINES: The Australian nurses federation has developed a clear cut guidelines for registered nurses and midwives who entrust features of nursing and midwifery care to other registered nurse, midwives, enrolled nurses or other licensed workers. ANF put forward 19 guidelines for the nursing and midwifery settings to illuminate the roles and obligations of in the entrustment of care and to deal with any kind of issues concerning the delegation of care. It also clarifies the role and obligation of the employers in the delegation of care by nurses. As per the guidelines, the registered nurse has to assess the health care needs of the consumer. Based on these assessments, a nursing care plan is formulated and informed decisions are made relating to the delegation of care within that care plan. Whilst doing evaluation and delivering care, main concern should be given to the interests and well being of the patients. It also states that a nurse should not take an assistant in providing the care. That means each nurse is liable for their own conduct and practice. If a delegated task is failure then the incidence has to notify and the assignment be re-delegated. The works should be monitored by registered nurse. Nurse should substantiate that the right duties are delegated to the right person. And proper guidelines and resources must be provided to co-staffs for better outcome.

Task VI ANCILLARY STAFF: There are numerous things about our hospital that indisputably require various alteration, up-gradation, rejuvenation, etc. but one of the really great things about our hospital is the efficiency of our ancillary staff (phlebotomists, respiratory therapists, transport, housekeeping department etc. For instance housekeeping department this plays a very vital role in the hospital set up. A hospital runs properly only with team work. In one or other everyone in a hospital is interrelated. Nurse cannot exist in hospital without the aid of housekeeping department. It is their duty to keep hospital
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and premises clean. They play a very vital role to prevent infection. It makes the hospital run to a great extent more like a well oiled machine. And then it is transporters fetch required articles anywhere out of hospital or ward. To exemplify to get shifted a patient from ward to other place somebody has to help the nurse. As a nurse, I thank ancillary staff for their magnificent work carried out to support me.

REFERENCE: 1. Australian nursing and midwifery council, 2010,retrieved on 16th January 2010 from http://www.anmc.org.au 2. Australian Nursing and midwifery council, 2005, national competency standards for the registered nurse, retrieved on 16th January 2010, from www.nmb.nsw.gov.au 3. Australian nursing federation,2009, Australian nursing federation federal rules, retrieved on 17th January 2010,from http://www.anf.org.au/pdf/federal _rules.pdf 4. AHPRA continuous professional development (2011) Retrieved from http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Registration-Standards.aspx 5. Australian Nursing Federation: Guidelines for Delegation by registered nurses and registered midwives. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.anf.org.au/pdf/policies/G_Delegation_RNs_RMs.pdf