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PSA104 Practise safely within the Australian health care system

Assessment: Digital Presentation

Summary
A digital presentation that must be completed in groups. You will be allocated to a group by your Learning Facilitator. For more details, please read the Task Instructions below.

Introduction
Numerous historical and contemporary issues affect the delivery of quality health care in Australia. Also, there are many legal and ethical guidelines, State, Federal and private governing bodies, codes of practice, fields of development and modes of funding. Therefore, it is important for nurses to both understand and stay current in their knowledge of these elements.

This assessment allows you the opportunity to research and present a summary of the health care system in Australia, including funding, factors affecting health, laws, and legislations that impact the nursing profession.

Task Instructions

Digital Presentation:

To complete this assessment, you must work as a group to prepare a digital presentation. This presentation should include responses to each point listed below. You must number the questions as per the brief in your presentation and each member of the group is required to identify the questions they have been allocated within the group.

You may use software like PowerPoint, Prezi, Visme, Keynote, Slides or ‘Slidebean' to compile your assessment. But it must be submitted as a pdf. Your presentation should be no longer than 30 slides.

Digital Presentation

1. Create an image or diagram displaying the overall structure of the Australian Healthcare System.

2. In no more than 20 words each., list three (3) strengths and three (3) weaknesses of the health care system in your state

3. Using no more than 50 words for each, discuss how the following factors impact health and illness in Australia

4. Identify three current health issues faced by the Australian population and existing health services that support these issues.

5. The following question has 2 parts -

A) List three (3) non - western healthcare treatments or approaches

B) nI no more than 50 words for each, discuss how these therapies may influence nursing care provided to patients.

6. Identify two (2) ways health is promoted in your local community and discuss two (2) strengths and two (2) weaknesses of each.

A) Identify two (2) specific themes or health issues relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

B) In no more than 50 words for each theme or health issue, discuss the impact on the delivery of health care these have for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

8. In 50 words, describe reflective nursing practice and provide one (1) example of how you could incorporate it into your professional life.

9. In 50 words,

a) describe what ‘open disclosure' is in relation to health care

b) how does it apply to enrolled nurses and

c) Which health care staff would be involved in a high-level open disclosure such as the

10. Using 20 words for each, describe how the healthcare system and healthcare policy is impacted by these areas:

• Social perspectives

• Political agendas

• Economic status of people

• Funding for services.

11. There are three (3) parts to this question. In no more than 150 words -

A) Briefly discuss the evolution of Medicare in Australia from 1975.

B) Name the health care system model where a government provides free health care to its citizens

C) What role does private health insurance have in the Australian health care system?

12. This question has 2 parts -
A) In no more than 50 words, explain the aims of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS)

B) List the standards.

13. List three (3) health insurance-related organisations that exist in Australia and in 20 words for each, discuss their roles in the Australian health care system.

14. You are working as an Enrolled Nurse for a pathology company. A client arrives with a doctor's referral for a blood test. In 25 words list the requirements for a valid request form and who you would check with if you were unsure of any information on the form.

15. Access the Nurses and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) website and locate the guideline on Mandatory Notifications. In no more than 75 words, answer the following questions -

A) What are the ‘notifiable concerns' set out under the national law?

B) Who should make a mandatory notification?

C). Who can make a ‘voluntary notification'?

D) Under what circumstances might a voluntary notification be made?

16. Being an Enrolled Nurse requires you to work within certain guidelines and standards as set out by the NMBA. Using the Nurses and Midwifery Board of Australia website, create a table with the following information -

A) Identify a guide, standard / indicator or fact sheet for each of the areas below

B) Provide a working link to the guide, standard / indicator, or fact sheet

C) Provide one (1) example of how you can apply each area to your nursing practice in an ethical or legal manner.

• Code of ethics for nurses in Australia
• Code of conduct for nurses
• Continuing professional development
• Duty of care
• Informed consent
• Insurance requirements for professional indemnity
• Enrolled standards for practice
• Professional boundaries
• Decision making framework: nurses
• Recency of practice
• Criminal history
• English language skills

17. Create a table using the following information -

A) Identify one (1) law, rule, regulation, or guideline from your State for each of the areas below

• Children in the workplace
• Discrimination - direct and indirect
• Equal employment opportunity
• Human rights access to healthcare
• Use of Restraints in health care

B) Povide a working to link to the law, rule, regulation, or guideline

C) In no more than 20 words, for each, how would you apply legal and ethical considerations of that law, rule, regulation, or guideline to your nursing practice?

18. This question relates to specific Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation and legal provisions that affect the development of nursing programs and the provision of services and procedures You are to create a table of the Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation and legal provisions that includes the fields specified, and for each field indicate:

A) The name of the Act or piece of legislation as below

B) A link to that Act or piece of legislation

C) An example of how it is applied to practice in nursing

D) A penalty for not adhering.

• Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act for each State and Territory
• Children and Young people legislation in each State and Territory
• Working with Children legislation in each State and Territory
• Health (drugs and poisons) legislation in your State
• Mental Health legislation in your State
• Workplace Health and Safety Legislation in your State
• Privacy Act 1988 Commonwealth
• Health Records Act 2012 Commonwealth
• Aged Care Act 1997 Commonwealth
• Carer Recognition Legislation Commonwealth
• Criminal Code Act 1985 Commonwealth
• Disability discrimination Act 1992 Commonwealth
• Age Discrimination Act 2004 Commonwealth
• Racial Discrimination Act 1975 Commonwealth
• Sex Discrimination Act 1984 Commonwealth

19. It is important for nurses to be aware of the application of law that applies to their nursing practice. For this question, :you need to create a table and answer the following -

A) A 10-15-word definition for each

B) One (1) example of how it might relate/be applied to nursing practice.

• The court system

• Civil law

• Common law

• Statute law

• Tort Law

• Negligence

• Duty of care

• Trespass

• Assault and battery

• Informed consent

• Valid consent

• Legal and intellectual capacity

• Clinical incapacity

• False imprisonment

• Defamation

• Precedent

• Vicarious liability

• Defendant

• Plaintiff

• Harassment

• Expert witness

• Coronial inquest

• Coronial evidence

• Functions of the coroner (list at least four)

20. This question is focussed on the different Models of Care you might use in your nursing practice in different States and Territories of Australia. Create a table and answer the following -

A) List all of the States and Territories of Australia

B) For each State and Territory, identify any two (2) models of care you like

C) Provide a working link to each model

D) In no more than 20 words, give a brief outline of each model.

Note: Do only 2 question Q15 and 19

Attachment:- health care system.rar