401037 Legal And Ethical Issues In Midwifery

Personal attributes

I have excellent communication skills as I have been able to handle difficult clients with my communication skills and negotiation capabilities. According to Kourkouta and Papathanasiou (2014) good communication between nurses and patients is vital for achieving positive outcome and reducing medical errors. I am hard working and have shown utmost loyalty to work as per my work responsibilities and ethical standards of the organization. Another positive aspect of my personality is that I am always interested in learning new things and this reflects my flexibility in adapting to different roles.  

Academic achievements

I have completed my graduation in 2014. I have completed a course in Completed nursing foundation studies in 2015 and I am currently pursuing the course of bachelor of nursing.

Employment Achievements

Some of my achievements so far in my career are that I have worked for 9 months in an aged care home in villa wood. This has given me the knowledge regarding the needs and standards of geriatric care. I have also gained some experience in understanding developmental needs of children by working as an educator in Aus kids for 8 months.

Strategies to achieve compliance with NMBA guideline:

As per the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), working according to developed codes of conduct, standards for practice and code of ethics are necessary in Australia. This enables nurse to work as per expectation and avoid any ethical or practical issues in care (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2018). To get well-versed with the NMBA standards of practice, it is planned to review all the guidelines and get more details from my mentor regarding the best way to the follow the guidelines in daily practice.

Curriculum Vitae

Academic History

I have passed a senior secondary certificate of education as a regular student in year 11 and 12 and I have got my graduation degree from the Auburn Girls High School in 2014. During my school period I applied for a diploma course in beauty and skincare at Granville, TAFE.  I started my course at the starting of 2014 and I finished the course on 29^th September,2014. After that, I have enrolled myself in a course of nursing fundamental studies in Nirimba campus of Western Sydney College and the courses duration was 8 month. In this course, I mainly learnt about the health communication, academic English, mathematics for health sciences, computer competency. In 2016, I took admission in bachelor of nursing course in Cambeltown campus of Western Sydney University and currently I am continuing that course.

Employment History

Job 1-

Company name : Australian Kids Family Day Care

Date of Joining: 22^nd February ,2016

Address of the office :  190, Waterloo rd. Chester Hill

Manger Name : Mina Alchalabi

Contact number: 0412225555

Mail id ; [email protected]

Job 2-

Company name : Kin Care

Job Role: Provide support and care to the elderlies and helping them in shopping, house keeping, personal care.

Address of the office: Bella vista NSW

Manger Name :Tim Lurane

Contact number: (02) 89995004

Mail id : [email protected]

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Interests

I love to read books and love to explore new cultures too. I love to work on electronic devices and love to do volunteer work for people and society.

Past short courses

I have completed certificate level 3 in aged care in 2016

Working with children check course in 2018,

Course of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in 2017

Certificate in First aid ( 2018)

Certificate in Anaphylaxis in 2017

Current CPD required:

Currently, I need CPD in the area of leadership, professional practice skills and principles of critical care nursing. I aim to gain leadership skills to enhance my future career prospective and seize the opportunity of being a leader and guiding junior nurse in the delivery of high standard of care. In addition, developing knowledge in the area of critical care is important to take the right decision making regarding complex cases. To complete the above mentioned CPD, the strategy is to contact my referral and get the best referral for organizations which can give the best exposure regarding the development of leadership skills. In addition, more knowledge related to principles of critical care nursing will be done by engaging in a short online course.

Plan for Future courses

Currently I am pursuing the course of bachelor of nursing course and in future I am planning to do full time master degree in nursing in the main university campus of Western Sydney University and it is a course of 1.5 years. After that, I want to pursue the postgraduate course in critical care nursing and  it is an online course, and its duration is one year. In this course, there is four unit and among them one unit should be chosen to complete the study. I am planning to choose  the unit of emergency nursing as I love to take challenges.

Workshops

I have attended a workshop related to the nursing practice and it was a professional course. In this workshop, I were exposed to practical experience of nursing care and that practical knowledge helped me in gaining knowledge in various sections of the nursing care. In this workshop, I have mainly learnt about the importance of hand hygiene,  vital signs of various disease, bedding, communicating with the patients, clearing  a dead body and also the procedure of administrating the medicines. I have learnt about the subcutaneous, intravascular injection.

Reflection on an incident happened in the Aged care home

 In this section, I would like to reflect on an incident that I experienced in the Aged care home. Gibb’s reflective framework has been used for reflecting by first starting with description of the event and then evaluating the event to plan future course of action (Husebø, O’Regan & Nestel, 2015). After finishing my diploma in beauty and skin care in 2014, I joined my first job on 22^nd February,2016. I was very much excited about the job as it was my first job. I joined in aged care center as I have joined in the bachelor degree course of nursing.  I have joined in this aged care as this experience of taking care of the elderly people will help me in giving care to the patients. On the first day of joining, it was quite normal day and I was introduced to all of my colleagues and all the wards were shown to me. I joined there to help the older people in their activities of daily life for instance helping them in personal care, help them in their transport. I used help them in their shopping too.  I love the work very much as I got chance to communicate with lots of people in that aged care.  I used to talk with them and try to make them very much comfortable so that they can say their problem.  They also loved to talk with me. Suddenly one day, I found  that one old lady was on the floor and she is crying  in loud voice. I tried to help her in standing but I failed. Then, with the help of the other people,  I succeeded lift  her up. She had severe pain in her ankle and that area was warm and  there was swelling in that region.  I gave her primary care and tried  to communicate with her. In communication, I discovered that, she tried to go outside and that time she had that fall and I discovered that, she had a previous chronic pain in her knee joint due to arthritics. Then I told her to take rest and continuously tried to motivate her as she had no hope about her life. She lost her husband two years ago and her son had brought her in this aged care center. After this incident, I was very much upset for her condition but I concealed my feelings. This incident of the age care center had motivated me to pursue my carrier in the health care sector and I chose the option of being a registered nurse and  planned to complete the one year online course in emergency nursing. The experience of that day in the age care drove me towards the course of emergency nursing so that in future, if there is any kind of mishap I can handle that with my knowledge.   

References:

Husebø, S. E., O’Regan, S., & Nestel, D. (2015). Reflective practice and its role in simulation. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 11(8), 368-375.

Kourkouta, L., & Papathanasiou, I. V. (2014). Communication in Nursing Practice. Materia Socio-Medica, 26(1), 65–67. https://doi.org/10.5455/msm.2014.26.65-67

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2018). Professional standards. Retrieved from: https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/codes-guidelines-statements/professional-standards.aspx