The Registered Nurse Standards of Practice are developed and overseen by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). They set the standards for Registered Nurses (RNs) in Australia, and are the core practice standards that provide the framework for assessing RN practice.
For more information visit the Nursing and Midwifery Board website.
Click here to download a copy of the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.
TO DO
Use the Standards to organise and keep track of the evidence you are recording in your portfolio via the tables below.
Add the title of your post and a link so you can easily locate artefacts and evidence against each standard as you progress through your studies.
This will assist you in creating map of your professional competencies and experience, as well as streamlining the process of creating resumes and applications in the future.
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Access some slides that demonstrate how to Edit Your Evidence Map on the Nursing and Midwifery Portfolios Hub.
Standard 1: Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice
RNs use a variety of thinking strategies and the best available evidence in making decisions and providing safe, quality nursing practice within person-centred and evidence-based frameworks.
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Standard 2: Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships
RN practice is based on purposefully engaging in effective therapeutic and professional relationships. This includes collegial generosity in the context of mutual trust and respect in professional relationships.
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Standard 3: Maintains the capability for practice
RNs, as regulated health professionals, are responsible and accountable for ensuring they are safe, and have the capability for practice. This includes ongoing self-management and responding when there is concern about other health professionals’ capability for practice. RNs are responsible for their professional development and contribute to the development of others. They are also responsible for providing information and education to enable people to make decisions and take action in relation to their health.
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Standard 4: Comprehensively conducts assessments
RNs accurately conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments. They analyse information and data and communicate outcomes as the basis for practice.
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Standard 5: Develops a plan for nursing practice
RNs are responsible for the planning and communication of nursing practice. Agreed plans are developed in partnership. They are based on the RNs appraisal of comprehensive, relevant information, and evidence that is documented and communicated.
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Standard 6: Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
RNs provide and may delegate, quality and ethical goal-directed actions. These are based on comprehensive and systematic assessment, and the best available evidence to achieve planned and agreed outcomes.
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Standard 7: Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice
RNs take responsibility for the evaluation of practice based on agreed priorities, goals, plans and outcomes and revises practice accordingly.
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