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Essay / Mental Health Patient Safety - 912
The Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics (NMBI, 2014), A Vision for Psychiatric Nursing (2012), Mental Health Act of 2001, A Vision for change (2006), Nursing Scope and Midwifery Practice Framework (2015), Mental Health Commission Code of Practice, national and local policies support and guide mental health nurses in practice. Currid et al. (2012) recognize that mental health nurses and other healthcare professionals have a professional duty of care to the client to continually assess and manage actual and potential risks to ensure safety, health and well-being. be of the customer and others. Continuous quality improvement promotes recovery. They must be aware of and understand a combination of vulnerability factors and impending mental instability that may put a patient at risk (Knapp et al.., 2012).