Comprehensive and Safe Patient Care

Unit Outline (Higher Education)

Level of Unit in Course

AQF Level(s) of Course

Level of Unit in Course

Introductory

Intermediate

Effective Term:

2024/05

Institute / School :

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Unit Title:

Comprehensive and Safe Patient Care

Unit ID:

HEANP7005

Credit Points:

15.00

Prerequisite(s):

(HEANP7002 and HEANP7003)

Co-requisite(s):

Nil

Exclusion(s):

Nil

ASCED:

060399

Other Change:

Brief description of the Unit

Students will consolidate their breadth and depth of knowledge and skills enabling a comprehensive understanding of the role of the nurse practitioner in providing safe and quality health care, and the importance of a strong business case for change. Students will explore the delivery of health care in complex and varied situations including factors associated with socioeconomics, personal preferences, choices and self-determination, psychosocial impacts and access to services. Students will also further their knowledge about population health, health care gaps, and epidemiology, considering the impact nurse practitioners can have on informing health policy. Students will demonstrate their ability to plan and manage person centred, evidence-based healthcare in their context of advanced clinical practice. In particular, attention will be drawn to the collaborative and sometimes complex interdisciplinary relationships involved with health care delivery. Students are required to maintain a portfolio (log) of their reflections of professional knowledge, practice developments and collaborative practice throughout their 50 hours of interprofessional practice

Grade Scheme:

Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF)

Work Experience Indicator:

No work experience

Placement Component:

Yes - 7 days

Supplementary Assessment:Yes

Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment

Course Level:

Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge:

K1.	Demonstrate how Nurse Practitioner practice supports individual preferences, choices and self-determination across the lifespan

K2.	Examine the role of collaborative practice in the context of the Nurse Practitioner role

K3.	Analyse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' histories considering how these may impact on planning health and wellness strategies in a culturally safe way

Skills:

S1.	Examine the role of the Nurse Practitioner in clinical, political and professional contexts

S2.	Articulate the role of the Nurse Practitioner in maintaining quality and safe patient care across the lifespan in socioeconomic and geographically diverse settings

S3.	Establish the key components of a business case to support change

Application of knowledge and skills:

A1.	Demonstrate the use of diagnostics based upon an ethically sound approach

A2.	Engage in culturally safe health assessments and health care planning

A3.	Apply epidemiological concepts to the planning and prioritisation of health care

Unit Content:

The ANMAC Nurse Practitioner Accreditation Standards (2015); The NMBA Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice (2021); NMBA Code of Conduct for Nurses (2018) and Code of Ethics for Nurses (2018), Safety and Quality Guidelines for Nurse Practitioner (2021); National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017-19); Aged Care Quality Standards (2021), National Digital Health Framework (2021; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2020) and National Prescribing Competencies Framework (2021) have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this course.

Topics may include:

1.History taking and comprehensive health assessment for complex, person-centred care across the lifespan

2.Ethically sound diagnostic reasoning principles for complex clinical settings

3.Cultural safety and health management principles

4.Health promotion and education strategies

5.Use of technologies to assist with health care

6.Health care priorities in Australia

7.Population health, health care gaps, epidemiology and the impact of environmental risk and societal processes on health care decisions

Graduate Attributes:

	Learning Outcomes Assessed	Assessment Tasks	Assessment Type	Weighting
1.	S1, S2, S3, A3	Provide a convincing business case to promote NP role opportunities	Written essay	40-50
2.	K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2	Viva voce clinical assessment with an examination panel (at least 2)	Oral viva voce clinical case study	50-60
3.	K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2	Clinical interprofessional practice (50 hours)	Clinical interprofessional practice assessment	S/U

Adopted Reference Style:

APA ()

Professional Standards / Competencies:

Standard / Competency