Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
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
Applied Work Integrated Learning Professional Practice 1Unit Code
NMY6101Year
2015Enrolment Period
1Version
4Credit Points
20Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
Online
Description
This is the first of two work integrated units which will enable students to address their clinical learning needs identified within their professional development plan developed earlier in the program. Within this specific unit students will execute and evaluate a specific clinically based work integrated learning project that attends to a previously identified learning need.
Prerequisite Rule
Must have passed 1 (I/W) units in {NMY6100}
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Communicate the justification of the design and implementation of the intervention to appropriate groups.
- Critically reflect upon a clinical issue requiring improvement.
- Critically reflect upon performance outcomes in association with personal and industry strategic goals.
- Design a Professional Development Plan pertinent to their role development.
- Design a sustainable intervention relating to their Professional Development Plan and clinical issue for improvement.
- Evaluate the intervention in conjunction with personal learning needs and industry benchmarks.
- Incorporate sound ethical and culturally responsive dimensions to the intervention design.
Unit Content
- Cultural responsiveness within healthcare practice.
- Learning plan design.
- Literature search skills.
- Personal performance assessment approaches.
- Presentation skills.
- Problem solving.
- Quality assurance initiatives including clinical audit.
- Reflective practice frameworks.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Online delivery of modules, discussion boards and tutorials.
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| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Assignment | Professional Development Plan | 20% |
| Project | Project report detailing the planning. implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement initiative | 65% |
| Reflective Practice | Justification Statement | 15% |
Text References
- ^ Andre, K., & Heartfield, M. (2011). Nursing and midwifery portfolios - evidence of continuing competence (2nd ed.). Chatswood, Australia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.
- ^ Taylor, K. (2010). Health care and indigenous Australians: cultural safety in practice. Victoria, Australia: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Huston, C. J. (2010). Professional issues in nursing: challenges and opportunities (2nd ed.). Philadelphia PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Hood, L. J., & Leddy, S. (2010). Leddy & Pepper's conceptual bases of professional nursing (7th ed.). Philadelphia PA: Wolters Kluwer Health Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Cowen, P. S., & Moorhead, S. (2011). Current issues in nursing (8th ed.). St Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier.
- Cooper, L., Orrell, J., & Bowden, M. (2010). Work integrated learning: A guide to effective practice. Abingdon, England: Routledge.
- McIntyre, J. (2010). Between two world: Understanding the stolen generations. A guide for health and human service professionals. Victoria, Australia: Connecting Home.
Website References
^ Mandatory reference
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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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
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
Applied Work Integrated Learning Professional Practice 1Unit Code
NMY6101Year
2015Enrolment Period
2Version
4Credit Points
20Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
Online
Description
This is the first of two work integrated units which will enable students to address their clinical learning needs identified within their professional development plan developed earlier in the program. Within this specific unit students will execute and evaluate a specific clinically based work integrated learning project that attends to a previously identified learning need.
Prerequisite Rule
Students must pass 1 units from NMY6100
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Communicate the justification of the design and implementation of the intervention to appropriate groups.
- Critically reflect upon a clinical issue requiring improvement.
- Critically reflect upon performance outcomes in association with personal and industry strategic goals.
- Design a Professional Development Plan pertinent to their role development.
- Design a sustainable intervention relating to their Professional Development Plan and clinical issue for improvement.
- Evaluate the intervention in conjunction with personal learning needs and industry benchmarks.
- Incorporate sound ethical and culturally responsive dimensions to the intervention design.
Unit Content
- Cultural responsiveness within healthcare practice.
- Learning plan design.
- Literature search skills.
- Personal performance assessment approaches.
- Presentation skills.
- Problem solving.
- Quality assurance initiatives including clinical audit.
- Reflective practice frameworks.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Online delivery of modules, discussion boards and tutorials.
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| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Assignment | Professional Development Plan | 20% |
| Project | Project report detailing the planning. implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement initiative | 65% |
| Reflective Practice | Justification Statement | 15% |
Text References
- ^ Andre, K., & Heartfield, M. (2011). Nursing and midwifery portfolios - evidence of continuing competence (2nd ed.). Chatswood, Australia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.
- ^ Taylor, K. (2010). Health care and indigenous Australians: cultural safety in practice. Victoria, Australia: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Huston, C. J. (2010). Professional issues in nursing: challenges and opportunities (2nd ed.). Philadelphia PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Hood, L. J., & Leddy, S. (2010). Leddy & Pepper's conceptual bases of professional nursing (7th ed.). Philadelphia PA: Wolters Kluwer Health Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Cowen, P. S., & Moorhead, S. (2011). Current issues in nursing (8th ed.). St Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier.
- Cooper, L., Orrell, J., & Bowden, M. (2010). Work integrated learning: A guide to effective practice. Abingdon, England: Routledge.
- McIntyre, J. (2010). Between two world: Understanding the stolen generations. A guide for health and human service professionals. Victoria, Australia: Connecting Home.
Website References
^ Mandatory reference
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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