Midwifery Council notification · Written to Code of Conduct
Ethics and Ethical Standards for Midwives for Midwives facing a Midwifery Council investigation, complaint or allegation
The allegation concerns your ethical judgement, behaviour or conduct as a midwife.
- Informed choice — a woman’s choice not informed, supported or recorded
- Referral — a consultation or transfer not made, or made too late
- Dishonesty — notes written to fit, or a claim for care not given
- Boundaries — a boundaries breach with a woman, whānau or colleague
- Confidentiality — something shared, posted or overheard without consent
- Fitness to attend — a birth attended unwell, impaired or exhausted
- Cultural safety — tikanga not asked about, or whānau kept out
- Any other — ethical concern or allegation of unethical conduct
Facing an allegation of unethical behaviour or misconduct like these — from the Midwifery Council, a Professional Conduct Committee or the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal?
Help with a Midwifery Council investigation, complaint or allegation starts here. This CPD course helps you remediate — and demonstrate the remediation, with a dated certificate for your written response, your portfolio or a Committee or Tribunal direction.
Immediate access · certificate on completion · twelve months' access
- 2 CPD hours
- Self-paced
- Written for New Zealand
- CPD certificate
- Bulk buy: any 5 for NZ$850 · any 10 for NZ$1,400
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Any midwife facing a Midwifery Council notification, complaint or allegation, a Professional Conduct Committee investigation or a competence review about ethical conduct, behaviour or decisions — an allegation of unethical behaviour, conduct or action
- Authorities covered
- The Midwifery Council (Te Tatau o te Whare Kahu), its Professional Conduct Committees and the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal
- Length
- 10 sections, 54 lessons, 2 CPD hours
- Format
- Self-paced, online, immediate access, twelve months from purchase
- Certificate
- Issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion, dated, with the course title and 2 CPD hours
- Price
- NZ$200 · any 5 for NZ$850 · any 10 for NZ$1,400
Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics CoursesRemediation courses for regulatory processes.
Who this course is for
Facing an allegation of unethical behaviour or conduct
The Council’s letter says a decision, a disclosure, a relationship or a shortcut in a long labour fell short of the Code of Conduct. This course is how you account for it — and show you have remediated.
Dealing with a Midwifery Council notification or complaint
A woman, her whānau, the hospital, the HDC, ACC or the Coroner has raised a concern and the Council has asked for your account. Your written response is where the reasoning first appears; this course gives it the structure the Council reads for.
Facing a competence review by a panel of midwives
A panel of experienced midwives will review your practice against the Standards of Competence, often through a case review of one event, and may set a competence programme. A dated certificate and a reflective account are evidence the panel can weigh.
Under investigation by a Professional Conduct Committee
Two midwives and a layperson have the file and want your response — and usually a meeting — before they decide what to recommend. They read for insight in your reflection, and for dated, targeted ethics remediation alongside it.
Facing a misconduct charge or hearing before the Tribunal
A charge of professional misconduct has been laid, or a penalty is being decided. Remediation completed before the hearing — dated, documented — is weighed every time.
Expecting a complaint to reach the Council
A complaint to the hospital, the Health and Disability Commissioner, ACC or the Coroner can become a Midwifery Council notification. Remediation done now is documented before it does.
The concerns this course speaks to
Informed choice and informed refusal
A woman declines the transfer, the induction, the screening or the hospital birth you recommend — or a procedure in labour is begun without proper informed consent. The Code makes an informed choice hers; the course covers what informing, supporting and recording it looks like, because the concern, when it comes, is about the record.
Consultation, transfer and the Referral Guidelines
The guidelines say consult; the woman does not want to; the last consultation went badly. Beneficence, autonomy and the duty to collaborate meet at the interface with the hospital, and the course treats the reasoning — and its record — as what a review panel reads first.
Probity and an allegation of dishonesty
A partogram completed afterwards to fit the decisions, a consultation recorded that was not made, a claim to the Ministry of Health for care not given, an account to the hospital or the Coroner that the record contradicts. Accountability is the first area of the Code, and the Council treats dishonesty as misconduct whatever the outcome.
Boundaries in continuity of care
Months in a woman’s home at all hours, and the boundary moves without a decision: messages long after discharge, gifts, friendship with the family, a relationship with a partner or relative. The Code places the responsibility with the midwife; the course treats the first drift as the moment the standard is engaged.
Confidentiality in a small community
Something disclosed at a home visit, a birth discussed where it can be overheard, a photograph or a post a town can identify. Confidentiality is a duty under the Code and the Health Information Privacy Code, and both permit disclosure only in defined circumstances — including when someone may be at serious risk.
Fitness to attend
A birth attended after too little sleep, working while unwell or impaired, no second midwife because there was no one to call. Health notifications are among the kinds the Council receives; the course covers recognising the limit in yourself and what a credible response contains.
Partnership, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Tūranga Kaupapa
Tikanga around whenua and the pēpi not asked about, whānau kept out of a decision, karakia hurried. The Code makes partnership an expectation, the Standards make cultural safety a domain of competence, and Tūranga Kaupapa sets out what Māori women can expect.
When two obligations collide
The woman’s wishes against the whānau’s; her choice against her pēpi’s safety; one woman against the next in a caseload; conscience against her lawful care; candour after a birth that went wrong. The course teaches how to name the tension, decide, consult, record — and tell the woman.
Facing a Midwifery Council investigation, complaint or allegation? This course helps you remediate — and demonstrate it.
Buy this course — NZ$200What the course covers
Ten sections and 54 lessons, with a reflective quiz closing each of the first nine and a post-course assessment at the end.
Introduction — Ethics in the Midwifery Partnership
Five lessons
Informed Choice — Autonomy in Pregnancy, Birth and After
Six lessons
Beneficence and Non-Maleficence — the Woman and the Pēpi
Five lessons
Ethics at the Interface — Consultation, Transfer and the Referral Guidelines
Six lessons
Confidentiality in the Home and the Community
Six lessons
Probity — the Partogram, the Notes, the Claims and the Account
Five lessons
Boundaries in Continuity of Care
Six lessons
Justice, Caseload, Conscience and Culture
Six lessons
Demonstrating Ethics to the Council, a Review Panel or a Professional Conduct Committee
Seven lessons
Conclusion and Key Takeaways
Two lessons
Show every lesson title
- Section 01 · Introduction — Ethics in the Midwifery Partnership
- Why Ethics Is Central to Midwifery in Aotearoa; The Code of Conduct, the Standards of Competence and Tūranga Kaupapa as Ethical Documents; The Partnership Model and What It Asks Ethically; Consequences of Ethical Lapses — for Women, Pēpi, Whānau, Midwives and the Profession; Ethics Across the Continuum — Booking, Labour, Postnatal Care.
- Section 02 · Informed Choice — Autonomy in Pregnancy, Birth and After
- Informed Choice as the Centre of Midwifery Ethics; Information, Understanding and Revisiting the Choice as Things Change; Informed Refusal of a Recommended Transfer, Induction, Screening or Hospital Birth; Consent in Labour — Examinations, Procedures and the Nod That Is Not Consent; Recording Choice So the Record Protects the Woman and You; Case Comparison — a Declined Transfer With a Poor Outcome.
- Section 03 · Beneficence and Non-Maleficence — the Woman and the Pēpi
- Acting for the Good of Two — When Their Interests Seem to Diverge; Safety — the Observation, the Second Midwife, the Consultation; Advocacy Within the Maternity System; Fitness to Attend — Fatigue, Illness and the Limit of One Midwife; Case Comparison — a Birth Attended After Too Little Sleep.
- Section 04 · Ethics at the Interface — Consultation, Transfer and the Referral Guidelines
- The Referral Guidelines as an Ethical Framework; Consulting When the Woman Does Not Want To; Transfer — Timing, Handover and the Woman’s Experience of It; Working With the Obstetric Team as Partners, Not Adversaries; Recording the Reasoning Behind a Transfer Decision; Case Comparison — a Transfer Made Late.
- Section 05 · Confidentiality in the Home and the Community
- The Ethical Duty of Confidentiality in Continuity of Care; The Privacy Act 2020 and the Health Information Privacy Code 2020; Small Communities, Whānau Networks and Who Already Knows; Confidentiality Against the Safety of the Woman or the Pēpi; Photographs, Messaging and Social Media in Midwifery; Case Comparison — a Home-Visit Disclosure.
- Section 06 · Probity — the Partogram, the Notes, the Claims and the Account
- Probity as an Ethical Duty and Accountability in the Code; Contemporaneous Notes, Writing Up After a Birth and the Line Into Falsification; Claims for Care — Visits, Modules and Honesty With the Funder; Honesty With the Hospital, the Review and the Coroner; Case Comparison — a Partogram Completed to Fit the Decisions.
- Section 07 · Boundaries in Continuity of Care
- Why Midwifery Boundaries Are Harder Than Any Other Profession’s; Gifts, Gratitude and Friendship With the Family; Messaging After Discharge and Where Care Ends; Relationships With Partners and Relatives; Ending Drift Kindly and Recording It; Case Comparison — Messages Two Years On.
- Section 08 · Justice, Caseload, Conscience and Culture
- Fairness Across a Caseload — Time, Attention and Who Waits; Conscientious Objection — Termination Care, Screening and Contraception; The Woman’s Wishes and the Whānau’s — Whose Decision; Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Tūranga Kaupapa as Ethical Obligations; Tikanga Around Whenua, the Pēpi and the Birth Space; Case Comparison — Whānau Excluded From a Decision About the Pēpi.
- Section 09 · Demonstrating Ethics to the Council, a Review Panel or a Professional Conduct Committee
- How the Midwifery Council Reads an Ethics Concern; The Case Review — What a Panel of Midwives Looks For; Reflection, Insight and Remediation — Defined and Evidenced; Weak vs Strong Responses — Patterns Across the Cases; The Remediation Portfolio for a Midwife; Writing the Response — Structure, Tone and the Sentence to Avoid; Taking Advice Before You Respond.
- Section 10 · Conclusion and Key Takeaways
- The Ten Things to Carry to the Next Booking Visit; Your Personal Ethics Plan — Habits, Consultation and Reflection.
How to respond to a Midwifery Council notification, complaint or allegation
The Midwifery Council, a review panel, a Professional Conduct Committee and the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal all read a written response for the same four parts. The course teaches each one.
The notes hold the birth; the response has to hold the reasoning.
- The obligations in playBoth of them: the woman’s informed choice and her safety, her confidence and someone else’s risk, the whānau’s place and her own wishes.The course maps each to the Code of Conduct and the Standards, so you can name them.
- The conflictWhere they pointed different ways, stated plainly.The course’s New Zealand midwifery dilemmas show what the tension looks like on the page.
- The decision, and who was consultedWhat you knew, what the Referral Guidelines called for, whether you consulted or offered to, and why one obligation prevailed.Weak and strong responses to six midwifery events show the difference.
- The reconsiderationWhat you would weigh differently now, with dated work that proves it.This course is the dated item you attach — and, for an integrity or boundary allegation, the remediation targeted to the lapse.
The sentence that signals the absence of insight is the acknowledgement followed by but the labour was.
Take advice from your indemnity insurer, your union or a lawyer before you respond to anyone.
Facing a Midwifery Council investigation, complaint or allegation? This course helps you remediate — and demonstrate it.
Buy this course — NZ$200How this course helps with a Midwifery Council investigation
The response that ended the matter, beside the one that did not
Six events from New Zealand midwifery run through the course in pairs: a partogram completed to fit the decisions, a procedure in labour begun without proper informed consent, a relationship that outlasted the postnatal visits, a remark to a woman in pain, whānau excluded from a decision about the pēpi, a transfer made late. In each pair the midwife who names the part of the Code first, does not reach for the labour as an excuse, and points to something dated is the one whose matter closed.
Evidence a review panel or a Committee will weigh
Counts: this course’s dated certificate; CPD targeted to the principle concerned; an audit of documentation, or of consultation and transfer decisions against the Referral Guidelines, repeated after an interval; a mentor’s reports; feedback from women and whānau gathered on purpose; Māori-led cultural safety education where Tūranga Kaupapa is engaged; and reflection that cites the Code and the Standards. Counts for little: hours on another subject, an apology for the complaint, and reflection that argues. For the stages from the first letter to the Tribunal, see the Council investigation process, explained.
Read the primary sources
Who wrote it
Dr Shehzad Iqbal
Course author and facilitator, Healthcare Ethics New Zealand
Dr Iqbal has designed and delivered ethics, probity and professionalism training for healthcare professionals since 2020, working with registrants across regulated health professions, online and face to face. He combines clinical practice with formal postgraduate training in healthcare law and ethics.
MBBS · MRCS · MRCGP · Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Law and Ethics, University of Dundee
Written and reviewed by Dr Shehzad Iqbal. Last reviewed .
In short
Ethics and Ethical Standards for Midwives is a self-paced remediation course of 2 hours for midwives registered with the Midwifery Council of New Zealand (Te Tatau o te Whare Kahu) facing a notification, investigation, complaint or allegation, mapped to the Council’s Code of Conduct and Standards of Competence. It teaches the four ethical principles in the order the midwifery partnership presents them and in the Code’s own words, reads them through Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Tūranga Kaupapa, and works through the situations that produce concerns about midwives: informed choice against advice, consultation and transfer, confidentiality in a small community, the woman’s wishes and the whānau’s, conscience, candour after harm, honesty in the notes, boundaries in continuity of care, and fitness to attend a birth. Six New Zealand case comparisons show the response that ends a matter beside the one that does not. Ten sections with a reflective quiz after each of the first nine, a post-course assessment, and a dated certificate from Healthcare Ethics Courses for your recertification programme. Remediation, not advice: no course decides a matter, and your indemnity insurer, professional body or a lawyer should read anything before it goes to the Council.
Four principles, one woman, one midwife
Midwifery ethics is decided in a relationship that lasts months, by a practitioner who is often alone with the woman when the decision falls due. The four principles — autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice — feel like the partnership itself until a concern arrives; afterwards the Council asks which were engaged, which gave way, and whether the midwife saw it. The course maps each to the Code of Conduct’s informed choice and partnership, to the Standards of Competence, and to New Zealand law and the Referral Guidelines.
Three things are midwifery-specific. Informed choice against advice: the Council reads for whether the choice was informed, revisited and recorded. The interface: consultation, transfer and handover are where a concern from the hospital usually arises. Partnership: under Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Tūranga Kaupapa, whānau are participants in the birth, and cultural safety is a domain of competence rather than a courtesy.
What these words mean
The three terms that decide where a matter goes, and the other words the course uses.
- Professional Conduct Committee
- The committee the Council or Board appoints under s 71 of the Act to investigate a conduct concern: two members of the profession and a layperson with a legal adviser. It asks for your written response, may hear from you, and recommends anything from no further action, through counselling and a competence or health review, to a charge before the Tribunal (s 80).
- Professional misconduct
- The Tribunal’s ground under s 100 of the Act: malpractice or negligence in your scope of practice, or conduct that has brought or was likely to bring discredit to the profession. Dishonesty, a boundary breach and a breach of confidence are among the findings made under it.
- The three routes under the HPCA Act
- Fitness to practise is the phrase practitioners use for the whole process. Under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 the Council or Board takes one of three routes: a competence review (your practice against the required standard); the health process — the Act’s fitness to practise provisions, for impairment by a mental or physical condition; or a referral of your conduct to a Professional Conduct Committee, which can lay a charge of professional misconduct before the Tribunal. Which route your letter names tells you how the matter is being treated.
The four principles, informed choice and the other terms the course uses
- Autonomy
- The woman’s right to make informed choices about her care and her birth, and to decline what is recommended. In midwifery: information in terms she can use, choice revisited as things change, the refusal respected and recorded, consultation offered. Breached by proceeding regardless and by treating a refusal as a failure of the relationship.
- Beneficence
- The obligation to act for the good of the woman and her pēpi as she and her circumstances define it, and to advocate for her at the interface. It does not override an informed refusal, and it is the principle often invoked when a midwife does.
- Non-maleficence
- The obligation not to cause avoidable harm by act or omission: the observation taken, the second midwife called, the consultation made when the guidelines say so, working within scope, not attending while unfit. The principle a competence review often engages.
- Justice
- Fairness between the women in a caseload and to the public: attention on clinical need, non-discrimination, honesty in claims on public funds. Engaged whenever there is not enough time or midwives, and whenever the midwife’s own interest is in the room.
- Informed choice and consent
- Agreement to care by a woman who has the information a reasonable person in her position would want, understands it, and is free to decline. In New Zealand a professional expectation and a legal right; the Code asks midwives to make sure choice is real and continuing, not only recorded at booking.
- Confidentiality
- The duty to keep health information private under the Code and the Health Information Privacy Code, tested in midwifery by small communities and the home visit. Not absolute: disclosure is permitted in defined circumstances, and the course covers how a decision either way is made and documented.
- Conscientious objection
- A midwife’s right to decline to participate in a lawful service on grounds of conscience, conditional on saying so, not obstructing the woman’s access to care from someone else, and continuing all care that is not in conflict. Concerns arise from the conditions, not the right.
- Cultural safety
- Care that the woman and her whānau experience as safe and respectful, in partnership, with the midwife examining her own assumptions and the power in the relationship. A domain of the Standards of Competence, an expectation of the Code, and the substance of Tūranga Kaupapa.
The provisions an ethics concern about a midwife engages
The Midwifery Council publishes its own standards of ethical conduct under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, and an ethics notification about a midwife is measured against them. These are the standard itself and the provisions of the Act the notification runs under.
Midwifery Council — Code of Conduct
The Council’s Code of Conduct for midwives, read with the Standards of Competence and Tūranga Kaupapa. It is the standard the course is written to and the document the Midwifery Council reads your response against. Read it.
For this course: The course maps the four principles onto the Code’s four areas and the Standards’ four domains so that a response can cite the document a review panel will apply.
Section 71 — referral to a Professional Conduct Committee
An ethics concern is a conduct concern — the partogram, a claim, a boundary, a transfer — and is referred to a Professional Conduct Committee of two midwives and a layperson, which investigates independently and asks for your written response. Read it.
For this course: An ethics concern about a midwife — the partogram, a claim, a boundary, a transfer — is referred here as conduct, and the course explains what the Committee of two midwives and a layperson will look at.
Section 100 — the grounds of discipline
The Tribunal may discipline for professional misconduct — malpractice or negligence, or conduct likely to bring discredit to the profession — among other grounds. Dishonesty in the notes or a claim, and a boundary breach in continuity of care, are among the midwifery conduct found to reach it. Read it.
For this course: Dishonesty in the notes or a claim, a boundary in continuity of care and a transfer made late for the wrong reasons can each reach this threshold.
Section 101 — the penalties
Censure, conditions, suspension for up to three years, cancellation of registration, a fine of up to NZ$30,000 and costs. Insight, remediation and conduct since the events are weighed every time, and an ethics course completed before the hearing is dated evidence of them. Read it.
For this course: The Tribunal’s penalty decisions about midwives weigh insight and the evidence of change; the course is about producing both.
Also engaged: Section 118 — the Council sets the Code and the Standards a concern is measured against · Section 80 — what a Professional Conduct Committee may recommend, from counselling to a charge · Section 36 — a competence review by a panel of midwives, often through one case.
What happens after an ethics concern reaches the Midwifery Council
The same stages as any concern about a midwife. At every one the reader asks whether you saw the ethical question, decided it for reasons you can state, consulted when the Referral Guidelines said so, and have reconsidered — with dated evidence.
Enquiries, and a request for your response
The Council makes enquiries and writes to you. Where the concern is a whānau’s disagreement with a defensible midwifery decision — a supported refusal, a home birth, a transfer later than they wanted — a response that sets out what was weighed, offered and consulted is usually the end of it.
A competence review by a panel of midwives
A pattern of contestable decisions, or one serious event, can lead to a review against the Standards of Competence, usually starting with a case review of the decision that prompted the concern. Ethical practice is among what the panel assesses; a competence programme is the usual outcome where a gap is found.
The health process, where fitness to attend is alleged
A concern that you attended a birth unwell, impaired or exhausted goes to the health process under the Act’s fitness to practise provisions — confidential and supportive, with conditions and reporting where needed.
A Professional Conduct Committee, where integrity or a boundary is alleged
Notes that do not match events, a claim for care not given, a boundary crossed: two midwives and a layperson investigate, read your response, usually meet you, and recommend anything from no further action to a charge. Insight decides more than the event does.
The Tribunal, if a charge follows
A legally qualified chair, three midwives and a layperson hear the charge, usually in public. Penalties run from censure to cancellation; insight and remediation are weighed in every decision, and any order is reviewed against what has changed.
Interim suspension or conditions
Where women or babies are at serious risk the Council may suspend your practising certificate or impose interim conditions at any stage, and the Tribunal may once a charge is laid. An interim order is a precaution, not a finding, and is reviewed.
Facing a Midwifery Council investigation, complaint or allegation? This course helps you remediate — and demonstrate it.
Buy this course — NZ$200Not a midwife? New Zealand regulates 18 professions under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, and the process is the same for all — courses for every registered profession →
Frequently asked questions
What should my written response actually contain?
The situation as it was; the obligations in play and where they conflicted; what you decided and why; what was consulted and with whom; the effect on the woman, her pēpi and her whānau in their terms; and what you would weigh differently now, with dates. Name the part of the Code yourself — a panel notices when the midwife gets there first.
Should someone read my response before I send it?
Yes. Your indemnity insurer, your professional body or a lawyer should see anything before it goes to the Council, a review panel, a Professional Conduct Committee, the Tribunal or the hospital. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and no course determines the outcome of a matter.
Will the Midwifery Council, a review panel or a Professional Conduct Committee accept this course as remediation?
No provider is accredited by the Midwifery Council, and no course decides a matter. What a panel, a Committee and the Tribunal weigh is dated, targeted remediation with reflection that engages the standard — and this course is written to the Code of Conduct and the Standards of Competence, so the connection is plain. Check the wording of any direction with your indemnity insurer, professional body or lawyer before you rely on it.
A woman declined the transfer I recommended, and the outcome was poor. Am I responsible?
An informed refusal is hers to make and the Code requires you to respect it. The Council and a review panel will look at whether it was informed — risks explained in terms she could use, the Referral Guidelines followed, consultation offered, the recommendation repeated as things changed — and whether the record shows all of it.
Does the course deal with the hospital interface?
Yes. Consultation, transfer and handover are where a concern from an obstetric team usually arises; the course gives the interface its own section and a case comparison, because a review panel reads the reasoning behind a transfer decision first.
The concern is about my notes and the timeline of the birth. Is an ethics course the right one?
It is one of two. Probity has its own section here — honesty in notes, in claims and in what is said to the hospital or the Coroner — and the Council treats notes that do not match events as a matter of accountability. The Professionalism course for midwives covers the same event from the conduct side; many midwives take both.
Something I learned at a home visit suggests someone is at serious risk. Can I disclose it?
Yes, where disclosure is necessary to prevent a serious threat to someone’s life or health, or the law requires it — to the agency that can act, limited to what it needs, recorded, and where possible discussed with the woman first.
Is a cultural safety lapse an ethics matter or a competence matter?
Both. Cultural safety is a domain of the Standards of Competence, partnership is an expectation of the Code, and Tūranga Kaupapa sets out what Māori women and whānau can expect. A concern about tikanga dismissed or whānau excluded is read as an ethical failure, and remediation is expected to be Māori-led.
Can I decline to be involved in termination care?
Yes, on grounds of conscience — provided you say so, the woman gets the care from someone else without delay, and you continue every other part of her care. Concerns arise when a woman is left without care, not from the objection itself.
I am a nurse as well as a midwife. Which page should I take?
The one for the authority that has written to you. Nurses have their own page written to the Nursing Council’s Code of Conduct; this page is written to the Midwifery Council’s.
How long does it take, and how long do I have access?
The course is 2 CPD hours, self-paced, with twelve months’ access from purchase. The certificate is issued on completion, dated, with the course title and the CPD hours, for your recertification programme, a competence programme or a response.
Courses that work alongside this one
Notifications rarely raise one issue. These are the courses that pair with this one.
Professionalism and Professional Standards for Midwives
Professionalism course for NZ midwives facing a Midwifery Council notification or conduct committee. Written to the Code of Conduct. 2 CPD hours.
Confidentiality in Healthcare Practice
Confidentiality and privacy course for NZ health practitioners facing a notification or privacy concern under the Health Information Privacy Code. 2 hours.
Privacy, Consent and Chaperone in Healthcare Practice
Consent, privacy and the presence of another person during an examination: for NZ practitioners facing an allegation about an examination. 2 CPD hours.
Duty of Candour for Healthcare Professionals
Open disclosure course for NZ health practitioners facing a notification about non-disclosure, delay, a minimised account or a missing apology. 2 CPD hours.
Ensuring Teamwork and Collaboration
Teamwork and collaboration course for NZ health practitioners facing a handover, escalation or team-conflict concern raised with a Council or Board. 2 hrs.
Documentation for Healthcare Professionals
Clinical documentation and health records course for NZ health practitioners facing a notification about records, late entries or amendments. 2 CPD hours.
Insight for Fitness to Practise
Asked to show insight after a notification? The staged model, the four components a Council or Tribunal assesses, and what undermines it. 2 CPD hours.
See all CPD courses for nurses and midwives in New Zealand →
Start today, finish at your own pace
Immediate access on purchase. Twelve months' access, a dated certificate on completion, and 2 CPD hours issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses.