Explaining the Nursing NMC Code of Conduct

Explaining the Nursing NMC Code of Conduct (A.) A code of conduct is a set of customary principles and expectancy that are considered binding on anybody who is member of a certain group. Nursing and midwifery practice in the United Kingdom are bound by a set of precepts and standard that set the least requirements for anyone wishing to practice nursing or midwifery within England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Island. There is a more advance set of ethical and behavioural pattern that all nurse and midwife working in the United Kingdom must follow (NMC 2008).This is maybe the most important of the pattern set by the regulatory body for nurses and midwives as it comprises the ethical and moral codes that they are expected to obey. The code applies to anyone in the register; nevertheless the importance and need for codes of practice and conduct goes beyond nurses and midwives and their everyday contact with patients. Even when not on duty, they must still stick to the principles and values comprising the code, especially as they directly connected to the women and people that they have been in their care. An example of this is respecting your client confidentiality. There are no much difference in the NMC code of conduct United Kingdom and that of Nigeria. In the aspect of treating people equally without prejudice and discrimination, all humans are equal and must be treated kindly and with respect. Confidentiality is another important part of the code of conduct which states that sharing of information is not right except in the case where the person is at risk of harm or in compliance with a court case. In writing of inform consent one must ensure that the client is of legal age which is 18years in Nigeria. In a situation where the client is under aged, the parent or next of kin signs the informed consent on his or her behalf. A nurse should maintain boundaries in a professional by not accepting gift, favours because it might be interpreted as an attempt to gain special preference. A nurse should avoid careless, malpractice and abuse while providing care to client. Clients do have a right to know about their conditions. A nurse should be accountable to the public at all time by helping to protect the public against harmful dangers and agents. As a nurse one must be ready to implement global health initiatives and participate in national and international conferences. (B.) Be aware that the rules of obtaining consent apply equally to those who have mental illness. Under mental health act it is very important that clients are checked under statutory powers, knowing the conditions and safeguards needed for giving care and treatment without consent. (C.) An area of the code that I am interested in is the area of informed consent. In Nigeria a clients legal age that allows him or her to sign informed consent is 18 years and above but in a situation where the client is under aged, the guardian or next of kin can sign the informed consent on his or her behalf. While in the United Kingdom, if the client is (a minor) under the age of 16,it becomes a complex case because it is believed that they are not matured enough to have a superior power of discernment and reasoning to make decision. This is a more similar case with that of Nigeria. Buts the difference is that, in Nigeria even if the client is 16 or 17 years and with parental responsibility the client will still not be given the opportunity to sign an inform consent. However the explicit wish of a minor should be thought about by an investigator, there are gillick competent minors that are able of consenting in their own right to treatment procedures, given that, in the view of t he professional concerned, they had gotten the nature of the treatment she is going to have and its potential advantage and disadvantage and were adequately mature intellectually and emotionally to make a judgement. In high schools in the United Kingdom, consent is important to the appropriateness of treatment and school nurses must have a sound consent before he or she can lawfully go on with treatment for a child. For children who are very young who do not have the power to make consent for treatment, the school nurse will depend confidently on the consent of someone acting on the power of a person with parental responsibility. As a child rows with age the law permits them to make consent to treatment decisions where they have the power to do so. School nurses can go on with treatment plan and advice if the child is seen or considered to be gillick competent. Right to consent is not subject to individual will or judgement without restriction set at puberty: it is a must by the school nurse who must be comfortable that the child is old enough to fully understand the consequences of the particular decision they are making. The more complicated the decision, the greater the maturity and intelligence needed to reach ability, as there will be a lot for the child to understand. School nurses will need to be comfortable with the child to fully estimate the difficult issues that needs to be considered before they can safely go on that the child has power to consent to treatment. In a case were the child is asking for treatment and counselling in relation to sexual activity such as contraceptive, then the nurse must also be sure that they are acting to protect the child and they meet the need of the sexual offences Act 2003.This is best achieved by recording the treatment and counselling given in line with Lord Frasers guidance in Gillick V West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA (1986) School nurses must keep their patients medical needs confidentially. This duty is draw from their legal, pertaining to and professional sense of duty and requires that as a rule they will not open patient information.However, the need to share information with others is vital to help deliver necessary care and protection of patients. While not proper disclosure is never welcomed, always using the duty of confidence as an excuse never to share information can lead in poor care and even bad report. School nurses must look at each case on its merits. Whenever needed the consent of the patient should be gotten before disclosure. Disclosure of patient information without consent is allowed in the public interest or where regarded by law and it is important that school nurses carefully balance the overall need for confidentiality against the needs and welfare of the patient that might need the information to be shared with necessary source. (D.) The sufficiency of informed consent is a vital part to consider when caring for patients.Weisz Melton (1995) describes informed consent as one of the most debateable issue in health care. This debate becomes even more important in adolescents health care. Informed consent is a technical issue and often does build legal and ethical concerns for the adolescent, parents or legal guardian(s) of the adolescents (Sturman, 2005) The legal and ethical connections associated with informed consent are very complicated and present challenges for those finding treatment and those delivering care (Anderson, 2005) an example was when a 16 year old girl walked into the hospital where I worked as a registered nurse in Nigeria and said she was pregnant and wanted to terminate the pregnancy. She was asked to go and call her parents or guardian to come and sign an informed consent for her before any form of pregnancy termination will be done. She walked up to me thinking probably I could help her out as a young nurse but rather I recognised my responsibility and up held the code of conduct which states that clients who are under aged; not above 18 years should be with a next of kin or parents to sign an informed consent. (E.) If it was in the United Kingdom, I would have acted differently because once a child gets to the age of 16; he or she is believed in law to be capable to give consent for themselves for their own medical, dental or surgical procedures. Meaning the young girl would be treated as an adult. Although it is still best practice to advice capable children to involve their parents in decision making. Where confidentiality is involved i must keep her privacy, unless I can justify disclosure on the grounds that I suspect she would likely suffer consequential harm. I would however ask her to involve her parents, unless I see it was not in her best interest to do so. (F.) The four Nursing and midwifery council domains are: Competent midwifery practice, Professional and ethical practice, developing others and self and realizing quality care through appraisal and research. As a registered nurse I took personal responsibility for my actions, those I forgot to do and been accountable for any action I take. I could make sound decision while handling the case of my young client in respect of my personal professional development; practice within the range of view of my personal professional capability and extended this scope as needed. Working with minors, a registered nurse should have capability and confident in giving the basic aspect of care. This gives the client and parents more confidence. This confidence and capability strengthens the foundation by ability and practical skills in the area of child growth, communicating with minors and their family members. This self awareness for nurses working with minors needs to be able to give support, educate them and help them understand what they should do and why, to make decisions about treatment choice and to be able to assist themselves meaningfully to their own care. A registered nurse must recognize their emotions, quality of feeling at a particular time and drives. They need to understand how these emotions produce effect on others and their performance. This self awareness requires strict inquiry into their personal thoughts and experiences. It required carefully weighed analysis of their feelings and how these emotions drive ideas and behaviours. We humans always have automatic reactions to certain interpersonal stimuli. This reverse movement may result from deep-seated suppositions that have taken root over time. Best example of an automatic reaction can be seen when watching group of cows going out to pasture. For unknown reasons, the cows always follow the same path. Humans also create symbolic cow paths in their rejoinder to certain situations, thoughts and emotions. The registered nurse needs to know his or her cow paths in other to raise their self-ability and have self-reliance in situations fraught with the various emotional responses found in health care. REFERENCE LIST Christina, M. (2009). Midwifery regulations in the United Kingdom. In: Diane, F and Margaret, C Myles textbook for Midwives. 15th ed. London: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier. P83. DOH. (2010). Seeking consent; working with children. Available: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_4067204.pdf. Last accessed 16th May 2011. Janet, F. (2010). Evolution of clinical nurse specialist role and practice in the United State. In: Janet, F and Brenda, L Foundations of clinical nurse specialist practice. New York: Springers publishing company. P18 NMC, UK. (2008). The code; Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives. Available: http://www.nmc-uk.org/Documents/Standards/The-code-A4-20100406.pdf. 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Pop Art

Beginning from England in mid asses and from USA in asses. Instead of traditional objects turning to art elements, Pop art were considered along with the spreading out of marketing corporations, concentrating on everyday objects through the application of technical trade. Meanwhile, it was in the tense period of societies across the globe, colonial issues, democratic struggle and liberation, race relations, women's rights, etc. Rated some challenges among college students and intellectuals, required to reassess the values of life. Artists selected images through popular trends, such as movies, comics, advertisements, especially on the medias. By using what was called â€Å"flashy† as a basis of art. Therefore, at some points some works of Pop artists were exalted to distinguish between â€Å"Intellectuals† and â€Å"low- educated† In art aspect. The essential meaning behind Pop Art Is created an Immediately deliverable sense to every class In society, It opposite ly different from the esoteric oil paintings assessed and admired by art experts.To instantaneously achieve the goals, Pop Art artists experienced with some new commercial methods, such as painting, acrylic, collage on canvas by using conventional materials and silkscreen printing. In addition, the high quality of work is immediately recognized on the media or largely in popularity, such as consumer goods, advertising graphics, magazines, television, films, animation, comics. The subjects were presented with high contrast, intuition and attraction In public.Many Pop-art artists continued the traditional Idea of â€Å"art Ideation†. They highly put the Influential of their works more than concerning bout how to create them, As long as the popularity still approves Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and other famous celebrities, as well as food labels, international brands, etc. They are become the main object of Pop Art. Pop Art is considered as a tool entering the world of painting art a nd sculpture to most of conventional people. For them, it is something they can immediately recognize and evaluate a work of art.They can like it or do not, but it does not make them have to worried about not seeing the beauty of a work that someone supposed a masterpiece of art. Pop Art seeks the reflection of social valuation and context where it was born. Therefore, pop artist focuses on the everyday concerns: foods, cars, money and sex. As the result, they need to use lost of daily images or sarcasms having strong visual Impacts. If criticized for related problems from themselves, they simply said that â€Å"holding the mirror up to nature – Reflecting the fact.Initially Pop Art course received scorn words from art critics. Example, Harold Rosenberg, an influential critic in the field of contemporary art has been described as hat art should care, that is coming from what is in the society where it was born, and the most important thing in Pop Art is it continues to remai n one of the most popular styles of art. If the value of art is Judged by the price of the famous paintings, so the painting â€Å"False Start† (1959) by Jasper Johns was sold in 2006 for $ 80 million, is became one of the most 10 expensive paintings in history.The most important artist of Pop Art in the half of the twentieth century probably is Andy Warhol. He was successful in both of fields of magazine and ad illustrator. He also created hundreds of art forms including performance art, flimflamming, writing, etc. In 1960, Andy Warhol had decided to stir in the art's world, He debuted the concept of painting that focused in mass produced commercial goals. Warhol began with Coke bottles and comic strips.Later that year, a friend suggested Warhol paint something that was so common, perhaps something like money and a can of soup, So he decided to paint cans of Campbell Soup. There were many flavors of Campbell Soup at that time. Warhol bought all the different kinds. Then he s pent hours copying he cans on a white background. He painted the cans several time, each can was slightly different from the next. He displayed his canvases of Campbell soup, one canvas for each of the 32 types.He sold all the paintings as a set for a $1000, bringing both Warhol and Pop Art into the worldwide spotlight. But in July 1962, Warhol found the process of silk screening that could help him make his paintings faster on canvas. This technique allowing one silk-screen to create similar patterns several times, because of uses a specially prepared section of silk as stencil, and Warhol would use this style for the rest of his life. He started making paintings of celebrities straightaway, most significantly a large collection of paintings of Marilyn Monroe.Like everyone else in America, Warhol was fascinated by movie starts like Marilyn Monroe, who died from an overdose of sleeping pills. Specially upon hearing she passing, Andy Warhol decided to construct a work of art aim to d edication to her. The image he uses of Monroe is a publicity photograph from the movie Niagara. The diptych style is taken form the Byzantine icons of Christian saints. Warhol was placed 50 images all the same of the actress, in grid of 5 rows and 10 columns. The 25 images on the left side of the artwork are all in impressive color.On the other hand, the 25 images on the right side are all in black and white, with some of the images being blurring and the actress's face barely seen, show the obviously contrast to the bright color of the left side. The strip of pictures in this work suggests the sequential images of film, the medium that made Monroe famous and the process of changing from color to black and white to almost nothing is meant to illustrate her fife and then finally to her death, as the star's demise.

Alan Mulally Ford Motor Company

The content of this paper is to outline the roles of leadership and how it affects organizational performance. It then discusses the role of Allan Mulally’s, CEO of Ford Motor Company, leadership style. The paper also presents how Mulally’s decision to set a goal increased the company’s performance and mentioning how Allan Mulally’s openness has gained him trust and helped him to reach his goal. Finally, my point of view on the impact of Mulally’s leadership style and how it effects the organization. Leadership is guiding people toward productive results to achieve the goals of the organization. An effective leader has the ability to motivate and influence others. Leadership influences organizational performance depending on the level to which the leader enables managers and team leaders to plan, organize, control, and act effectively. By accepting authority, responsibility, and accountability, managers can confidently face though situations that require decisions made. Faced with an overwhelmingly complex situation, Alan Mulally has been brought in as Ford Motor Company's new president and CEO. As diverse global dynamics confront the company and competitive pressures continue to build, he has the challenging task of improving Ford's brand image and returning the company to profitability. Mulally has invited your consulting firm to advise his management team on restoring the company's reputation and viability. Leaders significantly influence organization’s success, they must have the ability to develop new ideas, use that idea to set goals, and develop ways to achieve those goals. They must have aspiration to build vision, values, and goals, in order to accomplish great performance. Leaders have the talent to influence other people in order to have them follow him or her and have the ability to motivate the employees. They need to be able to be flexible to changes in its environment like demands, expectations, and pressure. A good leader builds trust, develop opportunities for the employees grow, get them encouraged, listen to employees, and bring up the best of them. By valuing and respecting cultural differences at work, leaders may avoid the negative stereotypes that can affect the company’s success. Leaders need to address the importance of open communications within the organization. Active listening, questioning, and placing emphasis on verbal and written communications between management and subordinates guarantees the company stays on track with the organization’s goal. Recognizing individuals and team differences will help the leader achieve a successful career with the organization. To build trust, the person in charge should be open to communication, be honest and hold integrity, be a risk taker, problem solver, and be able to face reality. Also, another factor that can be included in being a good leader can be the willingness to be open to diversity and a one that sets good ethical competency. It is the leader that will guide an organization to success. â€Å"Allan’s style is pretty relentless,† said the chief financial officer Lewis Booth His look is confident, disciplined, have the desire to succeed and very determined (Hellriegel & Scolum, 2011). He filled five binders with information he collected from interviewing to set plan for Ford Motor. Communication is the key aspect for him, he wants everyone in the company to know what is going on, what the company goal is, how to reach that goal, the position that the company is in, and the fields that need specific awareness. Because of his openness, Mulally gained many support from his employees and built trust. Mulally created cards that were written the four goals on one side and the meaning of the company on the other side to let everyone know what his intentions were. Allan Mulally is a very hands on leader, he expects weekly or sometimes daily updates of all the components of the company. Ford needed someone to point out what needed to be done and how it could be done. Alan Mulally set a goal to increase the sales by 2011 and he developed ways to accomplish that goal. One of his goals was to have Ford sustain its independence and not be taken over by the government. His target was small cars that were fuel efficient and electric cars rather than big trucks, bring up brand new Taurus to build brand, differentiate itself from it competitors, and take the company globally. He made sure that everyone in the firm knew these goals and how to reach the goals. Ford has picked up sales by 25% and is 1. 4 points on market share, where the two of its competitors lost. Allan Mulally made sure that everyone was involved in every operation that was taking place in the organization and that everyone understood the goals. He built trust by communicating with his employees and by being open. There were no secrets at Ford, everyone knew the plan. At Ford, the 12 functional departments and Mulally himself held meetings on every Thursday. In the meeting Mulally wants to know everything and he involves everyone from manufacturing to human resource to participate. His intentions were to communicate and be able to open about the problems that had occurred and find ways to work on it. I think Allan Mulally’s leadership style is very effective because I believe in communication and the involvement of everyone from every field of a company. By being open and communicating with his employees, he built trust, respect, and motivated his employees. He’s also a risk taker, passionate or very driven and a strong person. He set goals to achieve and he managed to find ways achieve those goals. I think, he definitely should continue with his style of leadership.

Graffiti Is Art Not Vandalism - 996 Words

Graffiti Is Art Not Vandalism Graffiti can be found everywhere and anywhere. It is a way for people to express themselves and be creative in a public manner. It shows how passionate and talented they can be when it comes to drawing or tagging and have it displayed as a piece of art for everyone to see. Graffiti goes way back to the ancient times and is now very well known in the modern days which makes more and more people interested and fascinated by them. It can be used in different types of ways. Many artists can either spray paint, carve, paste, or stencil them on a surface. From how we see them today they are usually images of random cartoons, big bubbly letters, vintage black and whites or inspirational quotes. Virtually anything colorful or not and big that can be easily spotted. Graffiti is more superior to be known as art than vandalism because it is a self expressing act. People need to be open minded about the images they see and look at the message behind it or else they will immediately criticize and say it is vandalizing property. It is a form of art not a crime. Going out of their way to trespass and damage property like fences, road barriers, or warning signs is considered a crime. Art wise, it attracts large crowds and shocks a few. It is a way to build a creative imagination and to be spontaneous. It really depends on how people look and feel about it. But there are artists that make street art which means that they areShow MoreRelatedIs Graffiti Art Or Vandalism? Essay1832 Words   |  8 PagesStorm Shepherd Professor Beerline Com 1110 Date Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism? Graffiti has put a major impact on the way people look at their everyday life. It was not used so much here in the United States but was used overseas. Overseas, graffiti, or street art, was used or played as a sport, just like baseball is Americas sport. 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