| Effective Term: | 2025/08 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Nursing Practice 3: Person-Centered Nursing Practice A |
| Unit ID: | NURBN2022 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (NURBN1006 or NURBN1017) |
| Co-requisite(s): | (NURBN2023) |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit will provide students with the skills, knowledge and attitudes required by nurses in the provision of person-centred consumer-led care. Students will explore person-centered care for people experiencing an acute illness, requiring hospitalisation for medical conditions and/or surgery, for conditions involving the National Health Priority areas of the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, digestive and musculoskeletal systems. Students will consolidate their understanding of the clinical reasoning cycle and apply the cycle and nursing clinical judgement and decision making to people with medical or surgical admissions, across the lifespan. Students will refine comprehensive assessment skills to conduct focused, person-centred physical and mental wellness assessments, interpret, and analyse findings to inform a person-centred plan of care, implement and evaluate care. Students will be introduced to delirium care. Students will have the opportunity to apply theory to practice during a structured clinical practicum experience. This unit contains 160 hours of clincial practice |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | Yes - 20 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: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Analyse and identify nursing care needs for patients/clients/residents across the lifespan related to alterations in health priority areas via a person-centred care approach |
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| K2. | Explore the role of the nurse in health care settings related to the current Registered Nurse Standards for Practice and identify the elements of safe and effective nursing practice |
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| K3. | Identify needs of patients/clients/residents in relation to specific requirements to promote health wellbeing, such as discharge planning, advocacy, and health education |
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| K4. | Critically analyse and explain the significance of evidence-based practice in relation to areas of clinical skills development |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Analyse a range of clinical skills essential for nursing practice and demonstrate competency in identified clinical skills |
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| S2. | Analyse and explain the legal requirements of nursing practice including administration of medication and documentation requirements |
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| S3. | Analyse and explain the importance of establishing and maintaining a therapeutic relationship |
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| S4. | Investigate and explain inter-professional communication techniques to assist with the transfer of necessary information between healthcare professionals |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Demonstrate knowledge and skills gained in relation to assessment skills in clinical settings |
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| A2. | Demonstrate knowledge and clinical reasoning to effectively plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care in a variety of clinical settings |
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| A3. | Apply nursing process to delirium care |
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| A4. | Document nursing care, applying knowledge and skills gained in clinical settings |
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| A5. | Apply and assess nursing graduate attributes and Standards of Practice allocated to this course |
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| Unit Content: |
The current NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice, NMBA Code of Conduct for Nurses, Code of Ethics for Nurses, National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, Aged Care Quality Standards, National Health Priority Areas and where applicable the NMBA National Competency Standards for the Midwives, NMBA Code of Conduct for Midwives, ICM/NMBA Code of Ethics for Midwives have informed the content development of this unit. The role of the Registered Nurse in Inter-professional practice Current National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards Current clinical Care Standards related to National Health Priority areas NMBA Decision Making Framework Models of health and nursing care delivery across the lifespan Patient safety across lifespan Delirium care across the lifespan Develop critical reflective and higher order thinking skills Provision of person-centred care whilst under supervision in clinical settings Barriers to care using contexts of nursing and conceptual frameworks Therapeutic communication in complex interactions including communicating with people with particular needs and in complex situations Systematic approach to nursing care including aetiological factors, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and nursing management of the major health priority medical/surgical disorders affecting the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, digestive and musculoskeletal systems Simulated clinical skills development appropriate for the major health priority medical/surgical disorders affecting the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, digestive and musculoskeletal systems |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 | Attendance at Active Learning Sessions | 80% Attendance at Active Learning Sessions (tutorials) | S/U Hurdle | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 | Attendance at Clinical Laboratories | 100% attendance at clinical laboratories | S/U Hurdle | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 | ANSAT and written reflection | Clinical Placement | S/U Hurdle | | 4. | S1, S2 | Assessment of clinical nursing skills | Clinical Skills Assessment | S/U Hurdle | | 5. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 | ANSAT and written reflection | Clinical Placement | 30-50% | | 6. | K1, K2, K3, K4 | Written case study | Case Study | 30-50% | | 7. | S1, S2 | Assessment of clinical nursing skills | Clinical Skills Assessment | 10-30% |
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