Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia

post contains two assignments

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, emphasises the professional accountability of nurses. Nursing is governed by professional codes and practice standards. There are times in practice where you may be asked to do work that you consider being unsafe or risky. For example, being asked to care for patients in a speciality area that you are unfamiliar with, or being assigned patients who have a highly infectious communicable disease.

This assignment asks you to consider an ethical dilemma – the decision by registered nurses of refusing a patient allocation. This is a complex decision and may have implications for an individual’s practice as a healthcare professional.

In this assignment you are to address the following:
•Is refusing a patient allocation an option for a registered nurse? If so, why? If not, why not?
•How you will you respond to complaints made about you to the Director of Nursing and/or Nursing Midwifery Board of Australia as a consequence taking such an action?

In your response you are to critically address the questions with reference to the academic literature and regulatory standards and codes.

2: This I Believe

Order Description

This I Believe Essay
We invite you to participate in this project by writing your own statement of personal belief. We understand how challenging this is?it requires intense self-examination, and many find it difficult to begin. To guide you through this process, we offer these suggestions:

Tell a story about you: Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in the events that have shaped your core values. Consider moments when belief was formed or tested or changed. Think of your own experience, work, and family, and tell of the things you know that no one else does. Your story need not be heart-warming or gut-wrenching?it can even be funny?but it should be real. Make sure your story ties to the essence of your daily life philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs.

Be brief:Statement should be between 500 and 600 words. That?s about three minutes when read aloud at your natural pace.

Name your belief: If you can?t name it in a sentence or two, your essay might not be about belief. Also, rather than writing a list, consider focusing on one core belief.

Be positive: Write about what you do believe, not what you don?t believe. Avoid statements of religious dogma, preaching, or editorializing.

Be personal: Make your essay about you; speak in the first person. Avoid speaking in the editorial ?we.? Tell a story from your own life; this is not an opinion piece about social ideals. Write in words and phrases that are comfortable for you to speak. We recommend you read your essay aloud to yourself several times, and each time edit it and simplify it until you find the words, tone, and story that truly echo your belief and the way you speak.

For this project, we are also guided by the original This I Believe series and the producers? invitation to those who wrote essays in the 1950s. Their advice holds up well and we are abiding by it. Please consider it carefully in writing your piece.

In introducing the original series, host Edward R. Murrow said, ?Never has the need for personal philosophies of this kind been so urgent.? We would argue that the need is as great now as it was 60 years ago.

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