Comparing Nursing And Social Work

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Introduction
For this report I will compare and contrast two health care professions. The two professions I have chosen are Nursing and social work. In my report I will discuss education and registration, principles of the care profession, continuous development, the framework of clinical governance, code of conduct, parameters within professional practice and ethical issues and boundaries.
Education and Registration
Both health care professions have to register with a regular body, nursing have to register with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) whereas Social Workers register with the Scottish Social Service Council (SSSC). Nurses maintain their registration throughout their careers. Nurses, midwives, and specialist community public health …show more content…

Nurses have six principles they must follow which are a set of statements describing what constitutes safe and effective nursing care which apply to all nursing staff in any setting for example ward managers in hospitals; team leaders in community; specialist nurses, community nurses; health visitors; health care assistants and student nurses all cover aspects of behaviour attitude and approach which underpin good responsibility, risk management, patient centred care, communication skills, team working and leadership. All these six principles must be followed. However Social Workers also have principles they must follow throughout their working practice. Their principles are to promote high standard of conduct and practice. Both profession is almost identical as they both have principles they must …show more content…

Continuous professional development (CPD) is described internationally by a variety of terms. These include: continuing nursing education lifelong learning and professional skills development. Among others the (CPD) program is to help nurses and social workers to maintain all skills available to them and to remain fit for practice. For nurse’s they must undertake 35hours of (CPD) every three years whereas social workers have to complete 15 days of study which include training, courses, seminars, teaching or other activities which could reasonably be expected to advance social worker’s development skills. Social workers must keep a record of their training undertaken the same as nurses. The (CPD) differ slightly for the two

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