Topic: Building Professional Capacity
You have applied for a graduate registered nurse position. As part of the application, you are
being asked to write a paper that addresses all parts of the task below.
• Remembering that the nurse’s workplace can vary (eg. acute care ward, clinic, community
environment, factory/mine site), using high quality nursing focused literature critically
discuss the concept of advocacy in nursing for the Australian registered nurse from the
position of advocating for a safe workplace. By providing at least 2 examples, explain how a
safe workplace enables the Australian registered nurse to provide safe patient centred care.
(450 words)
• Drawing from the NMBA’s Decision-making Framework
(https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-
Statements/Frameworks.aspx) and high quality nursing literature, critically discuss the
registered nurse’s leadership role of delegation in the Australian health care system. In
your critical discussion, explain why this is an important leadership role for the registered
nurse, and how negative patient care outcomes may occur as the result of the ineffective
delegation of care. (450 words)
This written essay requires an introduction and a conclusion (~100 words each) and must
be written as an academic paper with reference to high quality literature. This video is a
separate part and does not need to be part of your introduction or conclusion
