Course Title: Apply legal and ethical parameters to nursing practice
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5365 Diploma of Nursing
Course Title: Apply legal and ethical parameters to nursing practice
Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office
Nominal Hours: 30
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Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
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NURS5385C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science |
Face-to-Face | Term1 2017 |
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NURS5386C |
Bundoora Campus |
TAFE |
174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science |
Face-to-Face | Term1 2017 |
Course Contact: Leeanne Mond
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254837
Course Contact Email: leeanne.mond@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to within work legal and ethical parameters in professional nursing practice, including supporting rights and meeting duty of care requirements.
This course applies to enrolled nursing work carried out in consultation and collaboration with registered nurses, and under supervisory arrangements aligned to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia regulatory authority legislative requirements.
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
This course includes clinical placement
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency
National Competency Codes and Titles
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National Element Code & Title: |
HLTENN008 Apply legal and ethical parameters to nursing practice |
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Elements: |
1. Perform within scope of professional nursing practice. 2. Apply knowledge of the legal framework to nursing practice. 3. Apply ethical concepts to clinical practice. 4. Support the rights, interests and needs of the person and their family. 5. Apply open disclosure processes. |
Learning Outcomes
The critical learning for this course takes place in clinical placement within the health sector and within simulations in RMIT laboratories.
You will be instructed in skills through demonstration, modelling and role-play. Skills development is supported by lectures on theory and underpinning knowledge, classroom discussions, group work, research and reflective practice.
On completion of this course you should be able to:
- Perform within scope of professional nursing practice.
1.1 Identify legal and regulatory requirements including Acts and guidelines, and explain how these requirements impact own nursing practice.
1.2 Comply with requirements of current legislation related to nursing practice and identify implications of non-compliance.
1.3 Apply codes of ethics, codes of conduct and the content of enrolled nurse competency standards for practice in own nursing practice.
1.4 Function within the scope of jurisdictional requirements for enrolled nurse practice.
1.5 Respond to each person in accordance with organisation policy and procedures, including responding appropriately and sensitively to complaints.
1.6 Refer outside requests for a person’s information to a registered nurse.
1.7 Complete all documentation in accordance with State/Territory legislation and organisation policy and procedures.
1.8 Monitor own compliance with legal obligations and requirements.
- Apply knowledge of the legal framework to nursing practice.
2.1 Demonstrate knowledge of relevant law, including legal processes, principles and penalties in own nursing practice.
2.2 Accurately apply concepts of negligence, duty of care and vicarious liability to professional practice as an enrolled nurse.
2.3 Obtain required consent to treatment from each person before undertaking treatment or processes.
2.4 Apply principles of restraint appropriately, demonstrating the correct intent and application of restraint.
2.5 Use correct common legal terms associated with nursing practice, and correctly interpret their meaning and implications for nursing practice.
2.6 Apply legal requirements and organisation expectations and requirements in writing reports in own nursing practice.
2.7 Apply mandatory reporting processes in line with jurisdictional requirements.
2.8 Observe the person’s privacy and confidentiality requirements in accordance with legislative requirements and organisation policy and procedures.
2.9 Interpret referrals or requests for tests on receipt, ensuring the nature and requirements of tests are correctly identified, and seek clarification where required.
- Apply ethical concepts to clinical practice.
3.1 Identify and describe the concept of ethics and its place in nursing practice.
3.2 Demonstrate ethical practice in own interactions with the person and their family or carers and colleagues.
3.3 Maintain own awareness of contemporary ethical issues and potential conflicts of interest that may impact nursing practice.
3.4 Identify, document and report potential ethical issues in accordance with organisation policies and procedures.
3.5 Develop and implement strategies to resolve ethical issues within own nursing practice in accordance with role parameters.
- Support the rights, interests and needs of the person and their family.
4.1 Comply with legal responsibilities and duty of care requirements in all care activities and other interactions with the person, their family and carer.
4.2 Support the person’s rights, interests and decisions.
4.3 Encourage the person to exercise their right to make informed decisions about their care.
4.4 Demonstrate respect and support for the dignity of the person and their family members.
4.5 Advocate for the person, their family or carer in accordance with jurisdictional enrolled nurse scope of practice.
- Apply open disclosure processes.
5.1 Research and reflect on the practice of open disclosure and how it applies to own role as an enrolled nurse.
5.2 Apply the principles and processes of open disclosure in own work in a health care environment.
5.3 Identify the roles of other health care workers in relation to open disclosure.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1:
Research Assignment based on a legal topic
This assessment task supports knowledge assessment.
Assessment Task 2:
Case study based on an ethical scenario
This assessment ask supports Course learning outcomes (CLOs) 1, 2, 4 & 5
Assessment task 3:
Clinical Placement
This assessment task supports Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
You will be provided with an assessment overview for the course and a descriptor for each assessment task.
Feedback is provided on each assessment.