| Effective Term: | 2025/08 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Nursing Practice 7: Consolidation of Person-Centered Nursing
Practice in Diverse Settings |
| Unit ID: | NURBN3034 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (NURBN3023 or NURBN3030) (At least 240 credit points from program HL5 or HN5) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit consolidates the learning outcomes across the Bachelor of Nursing course. It provides an opportunity to develop confidence and competence in achieving the NMBA Registered Nurse Practice Standards while transitioning from student to Registered Nurse. In consultation with the relevant Unit Coordinator and/or Clinical Coordinator, students will be provided with an opportunity to identify their own learning needs and to seek opportunities to address them within diverse clinical settings. Students will consolidate their knowledge by successfully completing 200 hours of clinical placement. Students will apply the clinical reasoning cycle framework across diverse settings to ensure safe, quality, person-centred care within a global context with consideration of the National Safety, Quality Health Service Standards, Aged Care Quality Standards and Paediatric Quality Standards. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | Yes - 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. | Recognition of personal and professional learning needs to achieve the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice. |
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| K2. | Explore the globalisation of healthcare across diverse settings and how it impacts the provision of safe and quality care across marginalised groups. |
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| K3. | Analyse nursing care within diverse settings according to the current NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Undertake a systematic approach to person centred assessment within diverse settings. |
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| S2. | Demonstrate comprehensive, safe, evidenced based practice across diverse setings. |
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| S3. | Demonstrate cultural safety to improve the quality of patient outcomes. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Develop and implement person centred practice across diverse clinical settings. |
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| A2. | Evaluate the application of person centred nursing care across diverse settings. |
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| A3. | Consolidate and assess nursing practice to achieve required NMBA Practice Standards. |
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| Unit Content: |
The NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice; NMBA Code of Conduct for Nurses and Code of Ethics for Nurses , National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards and National Health Priority areas have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this unit. Identify learning needs in relation to achievement of the NMBA Registered Nurse Practice Standards; Consolidation of nursing clinical practice Discuss Global and Australian health contexts of diverse populations Perform an advanced and comprehensive nursing assessment Develop nursing care management plans for a diverse range of conditions Evaluate person-centred care in diverse settings Develop confidence and competence in a diverse clinical setting from an extended clinical placement |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K2, K3, S2, S3, A1 | Poster outlining a contemporary global health issue within a diverse population. | Poster | 20-30% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Diverse Populations and Nursing practice report | Essay | 30-40% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Clinical Placement | Clinical Placement | 40% | | 4. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Clinical Placement | Clinical PLacement | S/U Hurdle | | 5. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Attendance at Active Learning Sessions | 80% attendance at Active learning Sessions | S/U Hurdle | | 6. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Attendance at Clinical Laboratories | 100% attendance at Clinical Laboratories | S/U Hurdle |
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