This assessment applies to the following Learning Outcomes: · examine the role of the professional...

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This assessment applies to the following Learning Outcomes:
· examine the role of the professional nurse from the perspective of; self and client advocacy; teaching and on-going professional development
· discuss leadership and management as they relate to professional nursing practice
· identify effective leadership and management behaviours and role models
· outline the key principles and practices related to quality and safety management within the Australian health system
· analyse how cu
ent technological trends in e-Health might improve health outcomes by influencing decision-making and health policy
· critically analyse knowledge and skill gaps and identify strategies to address these prior to entry to professional practice or during the graduate year.
Introduction
Accountability is an integral component of professional nursing practice. Nurses’ accountability requires that nurses demonstrate competence in the provision of nursing care as specified by registration requirements, nursing board standards and codes, educational preparation, relevant legislation and context of care.
Assessment Instructions
1. Reflect on the learning outcomes above, and the content we have covered from weeks 6-10 to discuss how nurses are accountable for their practice
2. Use three practical examples to guide your discussion to demonstrate your understanding of nurses’ accountabilities.
1. You can use one
oad area of accountability and provide three examples of how nurses demonstrate this. For example:
Patient Advocasy
i. Example one – ensuring informed consent is obtained
ii. Example two – communicating patient’s wishes to a doctor
iii. Example three – protecting the health and well-being of patients
OR
2. You can discuss three different areas of accountability as your examples:
i. Example one – advocacy
ii. Example two – decision making
iii. Example three – mandatory reporting
Either way is fine, but be aware you must provide literature support for all three examples/areas to support your discussion. Make sure you clearly demonstrate/explain how each example/area DEMONSTRATES how nurses are accountable for their practice
Assessment 2: Written Assignment
How are nurses’ held accountable for their practice?
3. Introduction: Clearly introduce which area/s of accountability you will discuss and clearly outline what three examples/areas you will use to demonstrate accountability.
a. Include in the introduction which key documents (codes/guidelines/standards) you will use to inform your discussion. For example, this paper will discuss patient advocacy...... which will be informed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA XXXXXXXXXXCode of Conduct for Nurses. You must reference at least two key documents listed below).
4. Body: Use cu
ent literature to support your discussion and critically analyse each of the three examples and identify how they relate to nurses’ accountability.
5. Make reference to the key documents in the body of the paper as appropriate E.g as demonstrated in Principle 4: Professional Behaviour (NMBA 2018),
BUT DO NOT COPY large sections of text from these documents. You are expected to INTERPRET the standard, code or guideline, PARAPHRASE and EXPLAIN your understanding of how the code/standard applies to your example of nurses’ accountability
6. Conclusion: Synthesise your conclusions about the key accountabilities you have discussed
7. A minimum of ten (10) cu
ent and relevant references must be used (in addition to any of the key documented listed)
8. When referencing the key documents please use the usual APA format of Author, Year, Name of Document. For example: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia XXXXXXXXXXRegistered Nurses Standards for Practice
9. If there are two documents used from AHPRA, differentiate in text and in the reference list as AHPRA (2014a) and AHPRA (2014b) to distinguish between documents.
Key documents you can use to support your discussion
· The National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2nd Ed XXXXXXXXXX)
· Nursing and Midwifery Board Australia (NMBA XXXXXXXXXXRegistered Nurses Standards for
Practice
· Nursing and Midwifery Board Australia (NMBA XXXXXXXXXXCode of Conduct for Nurses
· International Council of Nurses XXXXXXXXXXThe ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses1
· Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency XXXXXXXXXXSocial Media Policy
· Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency XXXXXXXXXXGuidelines for Advertising Regulated
Health Services (2014)
· Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation XXXXXXXXXXANMF Guideline: Use of social media
and online networking
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Running Head: PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICES		1
PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICES 		2
PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICES 
Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….3
The Role of the Professional Nurse Is Respect To Self And Patient Advocacy…………..3
Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing Practices…………………………..5
Effective Leadership and Management Behavior and Role Models……………………….6
The Key Principles and Practices Related To Quality And Safety Management…………..7
Current Technologies trends in e-Health care system…………………………………………8
The Knowledge and Skill Gaps In Professional Practice Or During The Graduate Year……………………………………………………………………………………………….9
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………..9
References………………………………………………………………………………………11
Introduction
	Nursing or patient advocacy is one the advance care procedure which focuses by nursing organization in global level around the world. Nurses professional work not only provided patient care but also support in patient care. The study shows that there is two perspective of patient advocacy, which included being sympathetic and understands the feeling attached to patient and second, protect the patient in several aspects like, provide patient care, take care of health of patient and take it as a priority, completion of necessary care and protecting patient rights. Along with patient advocacy, professional nurses need to adopt critical quality in them like leadership quality, this phenomenon of leadership is associated with formal and executive leadership role of nurses in healthcare sector. As a professional nurse leadership required to take as initiative process for provide empower and motivation to achieve specific set goal. One of the important outcome of this study is understand the importance of leadership quality in nurses for betterment of health care sector.
The Role of the Professional Nurse Is Respect To Self And Patient Advocacy
	In broader term advocacy word suggest someone who can plead the convey the cause of someone else. In case of nursing, advocacy means protecting human rights, promotes patient health quality, patient equality and protect patient from suffering. It’s also suggest that patient able take decisions about their own right to protect their health.
	The example of advocacy involved that patient should aware about the necessary information of treatment provided to them and have right to decide whether they want to proceed with treatment or not (Arbour & Wiegand, 2014). In such cases as a patient advocate, nurses should provide support to patient and being careful about choice of patient and not show and kind of disapproval or approval of patient choice. According to some study nurses usually face hurdle when trying to execute effective advocacy for patients, the biggest hurdle is coming from the organization level. In some organizations employer provide minimal or no support from administrative level and doctors to nurses during their role in patient advocacy (Choi, Cheung & Pang, 2014).
	As aprofessional nurse, nurses should know how to treat patient and their family member with compassion and integrity, also provide effective patient care to diverse population and maintain the quality (Rainer, 2015). It is necessary to teach nurses some specific perspective like:
· Behave kindly when providing care to patients
· It is really necessary to provide essential information about symptoms and self-care habits to patients.
· Nurses should have friendly and open behavior so patient and their family member are feel comfortable to ask questions from them.
· If some patient has unique cultural or religious need, take care about that.
· Should incorporates legal and ethical knowledge about nursing care.
· Should involves scientific knowledge and evidences in patient and family nursing care.
· A professional nurse should have knowledge about government and institutional policies and law in respect to public health.
	Nursing profession is that involves continuous effort to earn honor for honesty and ethics. Nurses have power to make people lives well and to live in a worthy place to live. 
Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing Practices
	Health care system have to face many complex and multiple level challenges in improving the assessment, which required safe, high quality, cost effective patient care. Health care system need to evolutionary in nature which can only accomplish with leadership quality of staff especially nurses. Leaders play a crucial role in a system, with their ability to deal with challenges and problem solving attitude (Anonson, 2014).Leadership also provide direction, motivation, support, communication, support and advocacy for patient to achieve optimum patient care outcomes. Nurses are part of multidisciplinary team,

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