1. How many hours of continuous professional development are required for registration? Provide three (3) e
1. How many hours of continuous professional development are required for registration? Provide three (3) examples of how a nurse can achieve professional development hours?…………………………………………….
2. Outline the professional insurance and professional indemnity requirements all nurses who are registered with AHPRA are required to have, including nurses who a sole practitioners and nurses employed in a public or private hospital. …………………………………………….
3. The application and understanding of the law is essential to EN practice. Provide a description for each of the following common law terms.
| Common law term | Description |
| Civil law | |
| Common law | |
| Statue law | |
| Court system | |
| Precedence | |
| Sources of evidence | |
| Vicarious liability | |
| Defendant | |
| Plaintiff | |
| Harassment | |
| Expert witness | |
| Coronial inquest | |
| Functions of the coroner | |
| Giving evidence to the coroner |
| Q. 4 | Matt and Jamie, both in their late 70’s are in a same sex relationship. They have been together for most of their lives. Jamie is currently in hospital being treated for a UTI, Matt is visiting and during a general conversation with you he opens up to the fact that they are both worried about what will happen to them when one of them requires supported accommodation or aged care services. They cannot find an aged care services in their area where they can be together.
They want to find a facility where they can remain together even when they require different levels of care. |
- ) What are the principles of human rights based on? Identify the principles that have not been shown to Matt and Jamie?…………………………………………………………………
| Q.5 | A mother posts an update about her daughter’s admission to hospital following a car accident where she sustained a broken leg. She is annoyed that her daughter has to wait for surgery but that everything had gone well. The mother tags her friend, a nurse who was working in the hospital ward the night the daughter was admitted. The nurse responds to the comment, thinking it was a private message and inadvertently provides information about the daughter’s recovery and the status of the other person in the car. The parents of the other person have seen the social media post and have contacted the hospital to complain. |
- Identify the breaches of law and ethics in this situation and discuss two (2) potential implications this may have for the nurse……………………..
| Q.6 | Jenny 82-yrs-old has dementia and has been admitted to a residential aged care facility after long term hospitalisation for a hip fracture following a fall at home. Jenny was living with her daughter.
Jenny is weak, unsteady on her feet and frail. She uses a frame to walk, however forgets to use it at times when she needs the toilet in a hurry and has had two near miss falls. One particular morning on a busy and short-staffed shift a nurse puts incontinent pants on Jenny and sits her in a recliner chair with the recliner footrest up. The chair is very comfortable, but Jenny is unable to get out of it without assistance. |
a. Provide a definition and two (2) examples of restraint in regard to nursing practice ?………………..
b. What should your intent be as a nurse when applying restraints?……………….
c. Identify three (3) factors that nurses must be aware of if required to apply restraints to a client……………….
| Q.7 | You are working in an emergency department treating a 7-year-old child with a large laceration to the back of her head. The child is accompanied by her mother and her mother’s partner. The mother’s partner steps out to use the bathroom and the mother breaks down telling you she is frightened of her partner who is violent to both her and her daughter. She begs you not to say anything. |
a) What are your mandatory reporting obligations as an Enrolled Nurse in this situation?
b. Identify five (5) areas where mandatory reporting is required?…………
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