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ACSQHC national safety and quality health service standards aims - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1.
protect the public from harm
2. improve the quality of health service provision
the Ten standards of ACSQHC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Governace for safety and quality in
Health service organisations
2. Partnering with consumers
3. Preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections
4. Medication safety
5. Patient identification and procedure matching
6. Clinical handover
7. Blood and blood products
8. Preventing and managing pressure injuries
9. Recognizing and responding to clinical deterioration
10. Preventing falls and harm from falls
Standards for practice registered nurses - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Thinks critically and analyses
nursing practice.
2. Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships.
3. Maintains the capability for practice
4. comprehensively conducts assessments
5. Develops a plan for nursing practice
6. Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
, 7. Evaluate outcomes to inform nursing practice
self-awareness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔means being aware of what is going on inside ourselves,
as well as outside. essenital part of an reflective process. if nurses are unaware of how their
valuess, beliefs and behaviours affecct themselves, they will also not be aware of how they are
affecting patients and colleagues.
critical reflection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔it means reflecting on what happened and analysing
and identifying it. It moreover means identifying the influences, what was learned, any learning
deficits and what might be done differently next time. it means developing new insights -
reflecting back to applying insights as you move forward.
standard 1 Goverance for safety and Qualiy in Health Service organisations - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔refers to the set of relationships and responsibilites established by a health service
between its executive, workforce and stakeholers (including consumers). goverance
incorporates the set of processes, customs, policy directives, laws and conventions affecting the
ay an organisation is direct, adminstered or controlled. it determined how health services are
delivered and has a direct impact on the safety and qaulity of care.
Bioethics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔is the study of ethics as the field relates to health care. It
specialises in translating and relating the theories of health to the theories guiding moral
behaviour in health care. It is applied ethics, its focus tends to be on determining the most
suitable ethical solution to a specific health issue.
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia state that the purpose of the code of ethics for
nurses is to - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- identify the funamental ethical standards and values to
which the nursing profession is committed
- provide nurses with a reference point from which to reflect on the conduct of themselves and
others.
- guide ehtical decision making and practices
- indicate to the community the human rights standards and ethical values it can expect nurses
to uphold.