School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Transition to Nurse Practitioner Service Model
  • Unit Code

    MNP6100
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Helena Sara HALTON

Description

This unit is designed to introduce the student to the unique features and practice elements of nurse practitioner service and will enable a transition in thinking from foundation and advanced practice to nurse practitioner service contexts and service potential. The unit will enable students to gain skills in health service analysis and develop high level literacy in consumer demographics and the characteristics of changing consumer health service needs. The unit is framed by 21st Century principles of health service reform and the positioning of nurse practitioner service in meeting this reform agenda.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise the current health service and judge the history of the nurse practitioner role from this context.
  2. Display a theoretical understanding of nursings contribution to health service reform and specifically the characteristics of the nurse practitioner service model that addresses the goals of reform.
  3. Evaluate information on the demographic characteristics of the consumer population in a specific clinical field including relevant health and health service issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sectors of this consumer population.
  4. Synthesise information on consumer service needs to critique prevailing service models for a specific population.
  5. Formulate models for future nurse practitioner service delivery to address identified gaps in services.

Unit Content

  1. Key principles of health service reform and the technological, demographic and workforce elements that influence the reform agenda.
  2. Geographical influences on equitable access to timey health care specifically as it impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
  3. The elements of health service analysis and the role of nurse practitioner service in meeting gaps in clinical service.
  4. Factors that influence legislative, conceptual and service transition from advanced practice to nurse practitioner nursing service.
  5. The nurse practitioner role as a hybrid service in a nursing service model.
  6. Introduction of the Nurse Practitioner Practice Standards and the Meta-specialities framework and the role of these tools in developing an accountable, skilled, flexible nurse practitioner workforce.
  7. Designing a consumer responsive nurse practitioner service.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning in this Unit is related to deepening understanding of the nurse practitioner role in the broader health care system and consumer-related factors. Accordingly learning and teaching will draw upon a discovery learning approach that promotes deep learning through high level of student engagement in discussion, critique and problem solving. This will be supported through online tutorials, policy appraisal exercises, discussion forums and journal club meetings.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportHealthcare consumer demographics30%
Assignment ^Prepare a Nurse Practitioner service design70%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Transition to Nurse Practitioner Service Model
  • Unit Code

    MNP6100
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Helena Sara HALTON

Description

This unit is designed to introduce the student to the unique features and practice elements of nurse practitioner service and will enable a transition in thinking from foundation and advanced practice to nurse practitioner service contexts and service potential. The unit will enable students to gain skills in health service analysis and develop high level literacy in consumer demographics and the characteristics of changing consumer health service needs. The unit is framed by 21st Century principles of health service reform and the positioning of nurse practitioner service in meeting this reform agenda.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise the current health service and judge the history of the nurse practitioner role from this context.
  2. Display a theoretical understanding of nursings contribution to health service reform and specifically the characteristics of the nurse practitioner service model that addresses the goals of reform.
  3. Evaluate information on the demographic characteristics of the consumer population in a specific clinical field including relevant health and health service issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sectors of this consumer population.
  4. Synthesise information on consumer service needs to critique prevailing service models for a specific population.
  5. Formulate models for future nurse practitioner service delivery to address identified gaps in services.

Unit Content

  1. Key principles of health service reform and the technological, demographic and workforce elements that influence the reform agenda.
  2. Geographical influences on equitable access to timey health care specifically as it impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
  3. The elements of health service analysis and the role of nurse practitioner service in meeting gaps in clinical service.
  4. Factors that influence legislative, conceptual and service transition from advanced practice to nurse practitioner nursing service.
  5. The nurse practitioner role as a hybrid service in a nursing service model.
  6. Introduction of the Nurse Practitioner Practice Standards and the Meta-specialities framework and the role of these tools in developing an accountable, skilled, flexible nurse practitioner workforce.
  7. Designing a consumer responsive nurse practitioner service.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning in this Unit is related to deepening understanding of the nurse practitioner role in the broader health care system and consumer-related factors. Accordingly learning and teaching will draw upon a discovery learning approach that promotes deep learning through high level of student engagement in discussion, critique and problem solving. This will be supported through online tutorials, policy appraisal exercises, discussion forums and journal club meetings.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportHealthcare consumer demographics30%
Assignment ^Prepare a Nurse Practitioner service design70%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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