Professional Standards Clinical Incidents - Health Policy Case Study

Aim of Assessment
The aim of this assessment is to develop your understanding evaluating the professional conduct of a nurse/midwife in the case study provided. The case study provided is a shortened version of a decision statement selected from Decisions of the Professional Standards Committee from the Nursing and Midwifery Council New South Wales. You are to identify professional practice issues from the case study and then draw on the professional frameworks and regulatory legislation, to develop sound and appropriate responses to the clinical incident that will inform your future practice.

Details
This assessment requires you to identify and summarise the professional practice issues in the case study from either a nursing or midwifery practice perspective. You need to identify and evaluate relevant professional errors identified that potentially contributed to the incident happening. Finally, discuss on how your future practice might change and develop as a result of this learning. Students are to draw on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, NMBA professional practice documents and NSW Health policy documents (where appropriate) to develop informed responses.