One year on, the NMC is working with Chief Nursing Officers and other senior leaders across the nursing and midwifery professions to produce new resources that define what professionalism means to nurses and midwives.
The initiative will be underpinned by the Code, and will be a valuable part of what revalidation and the Code mean in practice. For media enquiries, please contact Hannah Schraer on or email media nmc-uk. We exist to protect the public. We do this by maintaining the register of qualified nurses and midwives and setting standards of education, training, conduct and performance.
Our guidance covers some important things to consider - like using social media responsibly and what to do if you ever need to raise a concern. We've also published some additional information on topics that may come up throughout your career:. Our core role is to regulate, and to ensure we regulate as well as possible, we proactively support our professions.
This means creating resources that are useful throughout your career as a nurse, midwife or nursing associate, helping you to deliver our standards and address future challenges. Caring with Confidence is a series of bite-sized animations about key aspects of your role as a nursing or midwifery professional, and how the Code can support you.
Please share the series with your colleagues. Caring with Confidence is a series of bite-sized animations about key aspects of your role, and how the Code can support you. Enter your search criteria in the field below. We know that this is an extremely challenging time for the professionals on our register. Nurses have a responsibility to strive for excellence and aim to deliver the highest possible standard of practice wherever they work.
This can be difficult when resources are limited, but is important. You need to ensure you are using the best available evidence to support practice and that you keep your knowledge and skills up to date. As a nurse you have a responsibility to uphold the reputation of the profession at all times. This applies equally whether you work directly with patients and service users or in other environments such as education, research or policy development.
It also applies to your behaviour and conduct outside the workplace. As the code sets out fundamental principles, it cannot cover all the circumstances or ethical situations nurses and midwives may encounter.
The NMC therefore provides a wide range of additional guidance and advice to support aspects of the code. This is frequently updated, so it is important to check the NMC website regularly for new material. It explains in detail what the NMC expects from nurses and midwives in relation to paper and electronic records. In view of evidence that poor record-keeping continues to be a problem across nursing and midwifery, the NMC is about to begin a review of this document. Its aim is to develop a new standard that will address the wider processes of critical thinking, decision-making, assessment and diagnosis that is undertaken by nurses and midwives and determines the care they provide, and the subsequent content of their records.
Guidance for the Care of Older People NMC, uses the code as a framework for identifying a range of principles that should be followed when delivering care to people in this age group. It focuses particularly on maintaining the dignity and autonomy of older people, and respecting their rights and choices. Nurses who work with older people are strongly encouraged to use this resource to further develop services and make improvements in care.
The safeguarding adults resources were launched last year and include a series of short films to enable nurses and midwives to critically reflect on their practice and ensure that safeguarding continues to be a key priority. These resources clearly illustrate the responsibility of nurses and midwives in using the principles enshrined in the code to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the public.
The code clearly directs nurses and midwives to act without delay if they believe someone is being put at risk. This provides a range of information to help nurses and midwives work through a process to ensure that concerns about the safety and wellbeing of people in their care or work environment can be raised and addressed. It is important to emphasise that raising and escalating concerns is not just about blowing the whistle on dangerous or unsafe practice. Nurses and midwives must be proactive in improving practice and standards of healthcare; this means being able to take a lead in identifying opportunities for innovation and enhancement.
Creating and maximising opportunities to improve services and providing leadership feature strongly in the new Standards for Pre-Registration Nursing Education NMC, c. The need for students to develop skills in critical thinking, evidence-based practice, and use of technology are also strong themes.
Students will be starting the first programmes approved under these standards this year and will need to see these principles modelled in the workplace when they undertake their practice learning.
It is important for all nurses to familiarise themselves with the new standards and ask themselves what they will mean in terms of how they apply the code in their practice. The NMC also produces a wide range of advice sheets that provide additional support to nurses and midwives in identifying how aspects of the code relate to their practice. These include confidentiality, accountability, delegation and, most recently, responsible use of social networking sites.
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