School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Nursing Practice Capstone
  • Unit Code

    NPP6105
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Carol CREVACORE

Description

This is the final work integrated learning unit in a series of five clinical practice units. In this capstone unit students will consolidate knowledge, skills and practice for evidence based nursing care within a legal ethical framework, for the care of clients in a variety of health care settings within an inter-professional team environment.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students may undertake practicum hours out of the standard timetable. Refer to the School of Nursing and Midwifery J46 practicum timetable

Prerequisite Rule

NPP6106, NPP6107 and NPP6108 / NCS6104

Co-Requisite Rule

Must have passed NPP6104 or study as co-requisite

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse contemporary professional nursing issues including clinical leadership, conflict management, teamwork, delegation, legal and ethical issues.
  2. Evaluate the transition from nursing student to professional practice as a beginning registered nurse.
  3. Critically appraise the role of a preceptor and identify strategies for effective preceptorship.
  4. Develop a professional portfolio to demonstrate evidence of competency.
  5. Demonstrate competency in evidence-based nursing care and collaborative management of clients including clients experiencing chronic, acute or life-threatening illnesses.
  6. Demonstrate competency in complex medication calculations.
  7. Demonstrate competency in the ANMC Competency Standards for the Registered nurse.

Unit Content

  1. Professional nursing issues including registration process, mandatory reporting and challenges of clinical practice.
  2. Clinical leadership, preceptorship and mentorship.
  3. Conflict resolution.
  4. Teamwork.
  5. Delegation.
  6. Legal and ethical context of nursing.
  7. Transition to registered nurse practice and professional portfolio.
  8. Self-care.
  9. Complex medical calculations.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Practicum85 x 4 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Clinical placement totalling 240 hours. Pre-identified clinical placement periods may change with minimal notice to students due to circumstances outside the control of the School.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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 School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^Portfolio (Clinical placement requirements, simulation activity participation, medication calculation test)
Reflective Practice ^Professional reflection and STAR
Practicum ^Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT)
Portfolio ^Completed electronic portfolio with evidence throughout the seven NMBA professional standards

^ 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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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