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You are a medical student on placement at Freeman Hospital. You are on placement with another...

You are a medical student on placement at Freeman Hospital. You are on placement with another first year student from the same university called James. James is working the same shifts as you.

You have been working the same morning shift as James for the last three (3) days. At morning tea James tells you that he hates his placement, is learning nothing and has complained on the student Twitter page.

You check the Twitter page and see the following post from James:

Warning! All nursing students

On WPL at Freeman Hospital. The medical ward is disgraceful – doing nothing but making beds and wiping old peoples’ backsides. To top it all off, for all those Melbourne students, am working with “you know who” – L.S is unsafe and wonders around all day looking stupid.

Looked after John aged 89 yesterday and had to change his bed 3 times. His daughter gave me $50 at the end of shift – bonus!!

You are horrified to see what James has written about the ward, the patients and also as your initials feature in the post as the “unsafe” fellow student. You reflect on James's behaviour in light of the Code of conduct and Code of ethics……

Question 1 (800 words maximum)

James's behaviour does not reflect the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s (NMBA) Code of conduct for nurses (2018). How is James's behaviour in breach of the NMBA Code of conduct for nurses (2018) ?

Question 2 (400 words maximum)

James's behaviour is also not reflective of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of ethics for nurses (2012). How is James's behaviour in breach of the ICN Code of ethics for nurses (2012)?

Expert Solution

As ICN CODE OF ETHICS 2012 is the code of ethics which are also effective in NMBA code of ethics in Australia from 2018.

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of ethics for nurses and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Code of ethics for midwives took effect as the guiding documents for ethical decision-making for nurses and midwives in Australia on 1 March 2018.

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), Australian College of Midwives (ACM), Australian College of Nursing (ACN) and Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) agreed to jointly adopt the ICN and ICM codes of ethics.

As NMBA is following the ICN code of ethics, so the answer of questions no. 1 and questions no.2 will be same.

So the James behaviour is breach of the ICN code of ethics as-

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