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All UK nurses and midwives will be required to perform revalidation as part of their registration process, from April 2016. This entails a pre-determined number of practice hours and study time, reflection on practice, obtaining feedback on individual performance and confirmation of these achievements by a third party source. This article describes the actions nurses and midwives can take to fulfil their revalidation requirements. It also discusses how to prepare for the forthcoming changes and what the nurse and midwife need to consider to perform successful revalidation. By completing the time out activities included with this article, reflecting on your practice and submitting your work for continuing professional development credits, you will be working towards creating a revalidation portfolio, in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Code, published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008), provides standards of performance and ethics for nurses and midwives, and is a means of safeguarding the health and wellbeing of the public. Guidance from the NMC may appear relatively straightforward, however it can be difficult to implement in practice. This article identifies specific challenges that nurses may be presented with when adhering to The Code, as well as more general issues in interpreting the standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summarizes the main arguments that have been presented in the debate on nursing ethics. Exclusiveness of ethics as it ignores facts of human nature; Assumption on the need to have higher level of qualifications in ethics to be an ethical nurse; Citations of the issues which must taken into account in the discussion of ethics in health care.

Healthcare practitioners must be better educated in the legal and ethical principles underpinning the delivery of health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]