Aim of assessment Standard 1 of the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice outlines the requirement for nurses to use best available evidence for safe, quality practice and to develop practice through reflection on experiences, knowledge, actions, feelings and beliefs

Aim of assessment Standard 1 of the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice outlines the requirement for nurses to use best available evidence for safe, quality practice and to develop practice through reflection on experiences, knowledge, actions, feelings and beliefs (NMBA, 2016). The aim of this essay is for students to describe, and reflect on, a nursing related event reported in the media and using the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards developed by ACSQHC (Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare) identify what nurses might do to improve their practice and reduce the risk of a similar error.

– A concise introduction that identifies the incident to be discussed with background information, a thesis statement (a statement that tells the reader what you believe about the topic), and outline of the main ideas to be discussed in the essay

– A comprehensive description of the nursing incident including an explanation of the nurse’s role in the incident

– Identify and explain the consequences of this incident for the nurse and the health consumer (patient and their family)

– Through the development of a nursing action plan, identify and describe the nursing actions that demonstrates how the nurses can improve their practice in a way that prevents the incident reoccurring

– A brief reflection of the incident using the points below from Rolfe et al’s (2001) reflective model (1 or

on each point below).

– What? What feelings did this event evoke (suggest) for you?

– So What? So what does this tell you about the nurse’s actions in this incident (were they appropriate, were they correct, was it best practice?).

What do you think the nurse might have been thinking when the mistake occurred?