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Nursing and Midwifery Council

This page provides you with free downloadable documents that are relevant to adult protection and elder abuse. These are reproduced here to assist you in your enquiries but please note that copyright remains with the authors/publishers of the individual documents.

Code of conduct for Nurses, which they are expected to follow in the course of their duties.  It sets the standards of behaviour.

Nurses on the administration of medication - Standards for medicines management - available as CD-Rom with accompanying booklet, the content of which can be found here

Guidance 
for employers on reporting nurses who are considered to be unfit to practice

Guidance 
for employers on reporting nurses who are considered to lack competence

Guidance 
for the public on reporting nurses who are considered to be unfit to practice

For nurses on the keeping and maintaining of quality records - Record keeping  - available here


For nurses on what are acceptable professional relationships and what constitutes abuse  - Registrant/client relationships and the prevention of abuse - available here

More information 

Action on Elder Abuse

Association of Directors of Social Services

Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales

Commission for Social Care Inspection

Department of Health (England and Wales)

Department of Constitutional Affairs

Key Adult Protection documents

Miscellaneous

Nursing and Midwifery Council

Public Guardianship Office

Social Care Institute for Excellence

Scottish Executive

Vetting and Barring