Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Perform within scope of professional nursing practice.
- Identify legal and regulatory requirements including Acts and guidelines, and explain how these requirements impact own nursing practice.
- Comply with requirements of current legislation related to nursing practice and identify implications of non-compliance.
- Apply codes of ethics, codes of conduct and the content of enrolled nurse competency standards for practice in own nursing practice.
- Function within the scope of jurisdictional requirements for enrolled nurse practice.
- Respond to each person in accordance with organisation policy and procedures, including responding appropriately and sensitively to complaints.
- Refer outside requests for a person’s information to a registered nurse.
- Complete all documentation in accordance with State/Territory legislation and organisation policy and procedures.
- Monitor own compliance with legal obligations and requirements.
- Apply knowledge of the legal framework to nursing practice.
- Demonstrate knowledge of relevant law, including legal processes, principles and penalties in own nursing practice.
- Accurately apply concepts of negligence, duty of care and vicarious liability to professional practice as an enrolled nurse.
- Obtain required consent to treatment from each person before undertaking treatment or processes.
- Apply principles of restraint appropriately, demonstrating the correct intent and application of restraint.
- Use correct common legal terms associated with nursing practice, and correctly interpret their meaning and implications for nursing practice.
- Apply legal requirements and organisation expectations and requirements in writing reports in own nursing practice.
- Apply mandatory reporting processes in line with jurisdictional requirements.
- Observe the person’s privacy and confidentiality requirements in accordance with legislative requirements and organisation policy and procedures.
- 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.
- Identify and describe the concept of ethics and its place in nursing practice.
- Demonstrate ethical practice in own interactions with the person and their family or carers and colleagues.
- Maintain own awareness of contemporary ethical issues and potential conflicts of interest that may impact nursing practice.
- Identify, document and report potential ethical issues in accordance with organisation policies and procedures.
- 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.
- Comply with legal responsibilities and duty of care requirements in all care activities and other interactions with the person, their family and carer.
- Support the person’s rights, interests and decisions.
- Encourage the person to exercise their right to make informed decisions about their care.
- Demonstrate respect and support for the dignity of the person and their family members.
- Advocate for the person, their family or carer in accordance with jurisdictional enrolled nurse scope of practice.
- Apply open disclosure processes.