Assessments Assessment #1 - Essay - Assignment 1 (Graded) This assessment item enables you undertake a piece of writing as a beginning level health professional that will be suitable for inclusion in an e-portfolio. One of the requirements of a Registered Nurse is that they must achieve a minimum of 20 hours of continuing professional development (CPD) each year they practice. This involves reflection upon practice to identify areas for further development, identifying suitable learning experiences, completing these and then reflecting upon learning and its application to practice. Formal documentation of CPD is an ongoing professional process that is available for auditing should this be requested by the national regulatory agency, the Australian Health Practitioners' Registration Authority (AHPRA). One method of collating such information is through the use of an electronic portfolio (e-portfolio). This e-portfolio provides a repository of evidence that can be built upon during your time as an undergraduate student and will be very relevant once you graduate and continue to collect CPD points as a Registered Nurse. For this assignment you are required to: Reflect on the three questions listed below and draw upon your clinical experience and the course readings when preparing your responses. Develop 3 statements of 250 words each in response to the questions about the practice of the registered nurse, QUESTIONS Question One: What role do codes of ethics and conduct have in the regulation of nursing and midwifery practice? Question Two: What are the responsibilities of the Registered Nurse in regards to the use of social media? Question Three: What are competency standards and why are they important for the practice of nurses and midwives in Australia? References A minimum of 2 references from journals or textbooks should support the response to each of the questions. Textbook(s) You will need continual access to the following text(s) to complete this course. The library does not hold multiple copies of the nominated text books. It is strongly recommended that you purchase the book(s). Berman, A, Snyder, S, Levett-Jones, T, Dwyer, T, Hales, M, Harvey, N, Luxford, Y, Moxham, L, 2014, Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing, Volumes 1-3 Australian Edition, 3e, Pearson Australia, NSW. McIlwraith J and Madden B 2014, Health Care and the Law, 6th Edition, Thomson Reuters, NSW . Reference(s) OTHER RESOURCES Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia web page: www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au and follow links to the •Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse • Code of Ethics • Code of Professional Conduct Catalogues and databases These can be accessed from the database link on the University of South Australia Library web site: http://www.library.unisa.edu.au The following are bibliographic databases. This means they may not contain the full text of the article, just the citation and often an abstract. To locate an article from a database, use the Find It link or use the Library's catalogue to see if the Library has the journal in print and/or electronic format: CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature indexes many English language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing and journals from various allied health disciplines MEDLINE database contains bibliographic and abstract coverage of medical literature Sociological Abstracts provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews and conference papers for the literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences. Full text databases The following are also useful for this course with the added advantage that they contain the full text of many articles: •Academic Search Premier • Health Sciences: a SAGE full text collection • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition • Informit Health Collection has some Australian information on health and medical topics • Ovid Nursing Database has full text journals plus contains a nursing subset of MEDLINE • Wiley InterScience (formerly Blackwell Synergy) • Access a complete list of Nursing databases via http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/services/databases/dbsubjectlist.aspx#N Web sites •Australian Bureau of Statistics. http://www.abs.gov.au • Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. http://www.achs.org.au • Australian Department of Health and Ageing. http://www.health.gov.au/ • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. http://www.aihw.gov.au • Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council. http://www.anmc.org.au • International Council of Nurses. http://www.icn.ch/ • Australian College of Nursing. http://www.acn.edu.au/ • World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/ • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (Indigenous Australians). http://www.aihw.gov.au/indigenous-australians/ • Australian Government - Indigenous Health. http://www.indigenous.gov.au/ • Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia. http://www.ahcsa.org.au/ Topic guides Topic guides have been developed for various subjects, and include links to electronic resources, sample catalogue searches, database tips and key internet sites. There are topic guides for Nursing, Midwifery, Evidence based health care, and Health, see http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/services/databases/dbsubjectlist.aspx for a complete list. Assignment help Check the Assignment help information at http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/learn/health/ to see if there is an online workshop to help you with completing an assignment for your course