A Concept Map – legislation: on entry to a Bachelor of Nursing program students must be registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). As this is often the first...

A Concept Map – legislation: on entry to a Bachelor of Nursing program students must be registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). As this is often the first exposure of students to the many forms of legislation that inform professional nursing practice, a concept map assessment will encourage you to illustrate the relationship between law and practice. The theme of the map will be indicated from selected legal texts, government websites and a number of pre- selected journal and newspaper articles. A concept map rubric will be provided to further assist you in the development of the map. Previous examples from Bachelor of Nursing students will be provided as exemplars. This assessment is particularly useful around the time of your first clinical placement to emphasise the legal and professional boundaries that guide nursing practice. The construction of concept maps is a useful learning and revision strategy that you can adapt to support other learning needs. The core concept to build your map around may be: confidentiality the NMBA negligence registration the duty of care consent ethics in nursing advocacy detention or restraint How the map develops is up to you - the concepts which will come together however must show how they are interrelated. Constructing a concept map is much like peeling an onion - the deeper you go the more layers there are. In respect of the word equivalent the concept map does NOT have to have 2000 words crammed into concept boxes. Rather the level of detail, hierarchy, branching and cross links are the things that give the map the equivalent depth. The concepts will be linked together to give structure (like the flow in an essay) while the concepts themselves represent how well you have synthesised the information around you. For example if you created a concept map around consent and didn't have any reference to implied consent it would suggest a lack of detail. Similarly if you created a concept map around confidentiality and did not refer to the Privacy Act this would also be lacking in detail.