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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

    Nurse Practitioner Research Project

  • Unit Code

    MNP6104

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit will support students to develop their investigative and inquiry skills by planning, implementing and managing a small independent research project. Students work in this Unit will be driven by their commitment to improving health outcomes for their consumer population. They will identify a research problem and conduct an inquiry project to investigate the dimensions of this problem. Students will draw upon their work in the unit Evidence Based Practice and Research Design and select one of two options to either operationalize a clinical pilot study or conduct an integrative review. Both options report the outcomes of the project with recommendations for clinical practice or further research. Students will be tutored in the scientific process, ethical conduct incorporating cultural safety imperatives and good clinical practice in research.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed MNP6101 Evidence Based Practice and Research Design

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conceptualise an empirical or review investigation.
  2. Develop an operational plan to conduct an investigation.
  3. Comply to human research ethics and other considerations to conduct a pilot study, an evidence based practice audit or an integrative review.
  4. Project manage an empirical or review inquiry project.
  5. Analyse and synthesize findings to formulate conclusions and recommendations.
  6. Report on the outcomes of the inquiry process either through a poster or a journal publication report of findings.

Unit Content

  1. Establishing a protocol for empirical or theoretical inquiry.
  2. Preparing the ethical, governance and logistical elements to conduct an empirical or review inquiry.
  3. Guidelines on ethical issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.
  4. Strategies necessary for operationalising and project managing a research study
  5. Collecting data according to the requirements of methodology and research design
  6. Approaches to analysis of numerical and qualitative data
  7. Mediums for reporting outcomes of empirical and review based research

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is experiential and requires the student to actively engage in all processes related to an inquiry project. Students will be supported by an academic staff member during completion of project.

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
AssignmentAn inquiry protocol20%
Poster ^A conference poster detailing research process findings80%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • Onleckno, W. A. (2008). Epidemology: Concepts and methods. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
  • Gordis, L. (2014). Epidemiology (5th ed.) Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders.

Journal References

  • Whittemore, R., & Knafl K. (2005). The integrative review: updated methodology. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 52(5), 546-553.
  • Torraco, R. J. (2005). Writing Integrative Literature Reviews: Guidelines and Examples. Human Resource Development Review, 4(356).
  • Im, E., & Chang, S. (2012) A systematic Integrated Literature Review of Systematic Integrated Literature Reviews in Nursing. Journal of Nursing Education. 51(11), 632-640.

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

    Nurse Practitioner Research Project

  • Unit Code

    MNP6104

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit will support students to develop their investigative and inquiry skills by planning, implementing and managing a small independent research project. Students work in this Unit will be driven by their commitment to improving health outcomes for their consumer population. They will identify a research problem and conduct an inquiry project to investigate the dimensions of this problem. Students will draw upon their work in the unit Evidence Based Practice and Research Design and select one of two options to either operationalize a clinical pilot study or conduct an integrative review. Both options report the outcomes of the project with recommendations for clinical practice or further research. Students will be tutored in the scientific process, ethical conduct incorporating cultural safety imperatives and good clinical practice in research.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed MNP6101 Evidence Based Practice and Research Design

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conceptualise an empirical or review investigation.
  2. Develop an operational plan to conduct an investigation.
  3. Comply to human research ethics and other considerations to conduct a pilot study, an evidence based practice audit or an integrative review.
  4. Project manage an empirical or review inquiry project.
  5. Analyse and synthesize findings to formulate conclusions and recommendations.
  6. Report on the outcomes of the inquiry process either through a poster or a journal publication report of findings.

Unit Content

  1. Establishing a protocol for empirical or theoretical inquiry.
  2. Preparing the ethical, governance and logistical elements to conduct an empirical or review inquiry.
  3. Guidelines on ethical issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.
  4. Strategies necessary for operationalising and project managing a research study
  5. Collecting data according to the requirements of methodology and research design
  6. Approaches to analysis of numerical and qualitative data
  7. Mediums for reporting outcomes of empirical and review based research

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is experiential and requires the student to actively engage in all processes related to an inquiry project. Students will be supported by an academic staff member during completion of project.

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
AssignmentAn inquiry protocol20%
Poster ^A conference poster detailing research process findings80%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • Onleckno, W. A. (2008). Epidemology: Concepts and methods. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
  • Gordis, L. (2014). Epidemiology (5th ed.) Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders.

Journal References

  • Whittemore, R., & Knafl K. (2005). The integrative review: updated methodology. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 52(5), 546-553.
  • Torraco, R. J. (2005). Writing Integrative Literature Reviews: Guidelines and Examples. Human Resource Development Review, 4(356).
  • Im, E., & Chang, S. (2012) A systematic Integrated Literature Review of Systematic Integrated Literature Reviews in Nursing. Journal of Nursing Education. 51(11), 632-640.

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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