Codes_of_Practice-accountability

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The code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (NMC 2008)
NMC ACCOUTABILITY
Nurses and midwives hold a position of responsibility and other people rely on them. They are professionally accountable to the NMC, as well as having a contractual accountability to their employer and are accountable to the law for their actions.
The code says that:
“As a professional, you are personally accountable for actions and omissions in your practice and must always be able to justify you r decisions”.
and,
“You must always act lawfully, whether those laws relate to your professional practice or personal life.”
If a nurse or midwife is asked to deliver care they consider unsafe or harmful to a person in their care, they should carefully consider their actions and raise their concerns to the appropriate person. Nurses and midwives must act in the best interest of the person in their care at all times.
If the nurse or midwife is delegating care to another professional, health care support staff, carer or relative, they must delegate effectively and are accountable for the appropriateness of the delegation. The code requires that nurses and midwives must ∙establish that anyone they delegate to is able to carry out their instructions ∙confirm that the outcome of any delegated task meets required standards ∙make sure that everyone they are responsible for is supervised and supported
Accountability is integral to professional practice. Nurses and midwives make judgements in a wide variety of circumstances. Nurses and midwives use their professional knowledge, judgement and skills to make a decision based on evidence for b est practise and the person’s best interests. Nurses and midwives need to be able to justify the decisions they make.
Code of Practice for Social Care Workersand
Code of Practice for Employers of Social Care
Workers (GSCC 2004)
Social care workers must:
• Protect the rights and promote the interests of service users and carers;
• Strive to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of service users and carers;
• Promote the independence of service users while
protecting them as far as possible from danger or harm;
• Respect the rights of service users whilst seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves or other people;
• Uphold public trust and confidence in social care services; and
• Be accountable for the quality of the ir work and take responsibility for maintaining and improving their knowledge and skills.。