Nursing NSQHS Standards and Nursing Care Clinical Handover Essay Assessment

Registered Nurses (RN) are required to use a number of thinking strategies and the best available evidence in making decisions in order to provide safe, quality nursing practice within person-centred and evidence-based frameworks to individuals/groups (NMBA, 2016). By complying with legislative, common law,policies, guidelines and other standards or requirements relevant to the context of practice, RNs are able to provide quality nursing practice.

The NSQHS Standards (2017) identify a number of high-prevalence adverse events to protect the public from harm and improve health care quality. These standards provide nationally consistent statements regarding the standard of care that consumers can expect from each health service. In this assessment students are asked to discuss two (2) of the following NSQHS areas in relation the current literature and explain the significance of these two (2) areas to nursing care.

• Preventing falls and harm from falls

• Preventing and managing pressure injury

• Clinical handover

• Integrating clinical governance of medication safety and quality

• Infection prevention and control systems

  This essay should demonstrate the following components:

  Introduction and conclusion.

1. Introduction :Writing introductions and conclusions for essays

2. Essay body (as required) Tertiary Essay Writing

3. An understanding of the NSQHS Standards (2017) and how these contribute to quality in health care

4. Recognition of the role of the RN in relation to the two (2) chosen NSQHS areas

5. Demonstration of the significance of the two (2) chosen NSQHS areas to nursing care provision

6. Incorporation, analysis and synthesis of contemporary literature. (APA 6 th edition is required).