| Effective Term: | 2026/16 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Consolidation of Person-Centered Nursing Practice in Diverse
Settings |
| Unit ID: | NURBN3108 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (NURBN3104) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit consolidates students’ advanced theoretical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and practical skills to support the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred nursing care. Students will apply key principles and professional standards across diverse healthcare contexts, with a focus on ethical accountability, reflective practice, effective communication, and collaborative teamwork. Through clinical laboratory sessions and 200 hours of supervised clinical placement, students will develop the ability to integrate clinical judgement with evidence-based practice to ensure safe, culturally responsive, and strengths-based care in alignment with national nursing standards. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | Yes - 25 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. | Integrate advanced theoretical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to effectively deliver safe and quality nursing care to diverse populations in various healthcare settings, in accordance with the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Evaluate clinical decisions and care strategies using evidence-based frameworks and national nursing standards to develop and implement person-centred care plans across diverse settings. |
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| S2. | Use effective communication and collaborative teamwork skills with intra- and interprofessional healthcare teams to support safe, culturally responsive and coordinated care. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply professional, ethical, and legal standards to guide nursing practice and ensure accountability in complex clinical environments |
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| A2. | Apply reflective practice and self-care strategies to support professional and individual development in sustaining safe, ethical practice. |
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| Unit Content: |
The following key standards have guided the content development of this unit: - NMBA Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (Registered nurse standards for practice, Midwife standards for practice, Code of conduct, and ICN Code of ethics for nurses)
- NSQHS National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
- National Safety and Quality Primary and Community
- ACQS Aged Care Quality Standards
- National Health Priority Areas
- ACSQHC Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Content will include: - Professional Standards and learning development
- Clinical practice and assessment
- Global health contexts and diversity
- Care planning and management
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| 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 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | 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 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, S2, A1 | Contemporary Global Health Issue | Poster | 10-30% | | 2. | K1, S1, S2, A1, A2 | Reflective Nursing Practice Report | Written Assessment | 20-40% | | 3. | K1, S1, S2, A1, A2 | ANSAT | Clinical Placement | 30-50% | | 4. | K1, S1, S2, A1, A2 | Attendance at Active learning Sessions | 80% attendance at Active learning Sessions | S/U Hurdle | | 5. | K1, S1, S2, A1, A2 | Attendance at Clinical Laboratories | 100% attendance at Clinical Laboratories | S/U Hurdle | | 6. | K1, S1, S2, A1, A2 | Attendance/attempt at all assessments | 100% Attendance/attempt at assessments 1, 2 and 3 | S/U Hurdle |
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