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Nursing practice in Australia is governed by Codes of professional conduct, code of ethics, standards for practice and professional boundaries instituted by Nurses and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). When administering prescribed medications to a client you refer to medication administration guidelines, policies, procedure and other legislative requirements relevant to medication administration. For the listed Codes of Conduct, Codes of Ethics and Standards for Practice, explain briefly how you would comply. Code of Conduct How would you comply with these codes and standards? 1.1) CoC: 1: Nurses practise in a safe and competent manner. COE 6: Nurses value a culture of safety in nursing and health care. Standard 9: Practises within safety and quality improvement guidelines and standards 1.2) COC 2: Nurses practise in accordance with the standards of the profession and broader health system COE 1: Nurses value quality nursing care for all people. 1.3) COC 3: Nurses practise and conduct themselves in accordance with laws relevant to the profession and practice of nursing Standard 1: Functions in accordance with the law, policies and procedures affecting EN practice 1.4) COC 4: Nurses respect the dignity, culture, ethnicity, values and beliefs of people receiving care and treatment, and of their colleagues. COE 2: Nurses value respect and kindness for self and others. COE 3: Nurses value the diversity of people. Standard 2: Practises nursing in a way that ensures the rights, confidentiality, dignity and respect of people are upheld. 1.5) COC 5: Nurses treat personal information obtained in a professional capacity as private and confidential. COE 7: Nurses value ethical management of information. Standard 2: Practises nursing in a way that ensures the rights, confidentiality, dignity and respect of people are upheld. 1.6) COC 6: Nurses provide impartial, honest and accurate information in relation to nursing care and health care products. COC 7: Nurses support the health, wellbeing and informed decision-making of people requiring or receiving care. COE 5: Nurses value informed decision-making. Standard 6: Provides skilled and timely care to people whilst promoting their independence and involvement in care decision-making 1.7) COC 8: Nurses promote and preserve the trust and privilege inherent in the relationship between nurses and people receiving care. COC 9: Nurses maintain and build on the community's trust and confidence in the nursing profession. 1.8) COC 10: Nurses practise nursing reflectively and ethically Standard 8: Provides nursing care that is informed by research evidence 1.9) Standard 3: Accepts accountability and responsibility for own actions

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In Nursing Code Of Ethics, Code Of Conduct, Standards, Ethics, Performance plays an important role for setting of important principles which all the nurses has to follow in their practice to remind them their professional nursing responsibilities.

1.1) * CODE OF CONDUCT :1 : involves nurses practice in a safe and competent manner with professional respect and dignity of their profession as it includes identifying their roles and responsibilities towards patient care . Nurses should follow code of ethics like dignity in their profession, maintaining values and beliefs and respecting feelings of patients who are receiving care in hospitals, follow the code of ethics of profession with patients, their family members, other staff and colleagues where they can deliver a safe and competent health services to patients.

*  CODE OF ETHIC 6 : Nurses value a culture of safety in nursing and health care focuses on the provision of health care services to patients in an organization with core values and cultures of safety levels in health care. As code of ethics are formulated to provide a very good quality care to patients and elevate the standards of their profession. While providing care to patients nurses have to follow their values in a way that they respect for the cultural values of the patient and to provide a safety environment to clients receiving care.

* STANDARD 9 Practices within safety and quality improvement guidelines and standards. Standards of nursing profession indicates the amount of care provided to patients in an accurate manner . Keeping f safety precautions as well as following guidelines and standards of the profession it is possible to improve health services of patient in a accurate level.    FOR EXAMPLE : While performing the procedure of administration of medication to patient in an Intravenous route nurse has to follow basic hand washing techniques to prevent cross infections to patients, there by providing a safe environment to patient by maintaining nursing standards and ethics.