School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Nursing Practice 1
  • Unit Code

    NPU1101
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Melanie BUHLMANN

Description

This is the first of six work integrated learning units. In this unit, simulation workshops will enable students to develop knowledge and skills aligned to nursing theory units. The content of this unit focuses on the development of beginning level knowledge, professionalism, and skills required for a student at stage 1 of the program. Students will develop beginning level critical thinking skills in relation to risk assessment and management, physical assessment, assisting with activities of daily living, vital sign measurement and infection control.

Prerequisite Rule

Only students studying courses Bachelor of Science (Nursing) or Bachelor of Science (Nursing)/Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) can enrol in this unit

Equivalent Rule

NPP1101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Produce evidence of beginning professional development aligned to scope of practice and the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.
  2. Demonstrate critical thinking in the application of safe, evidence-based nursing care.
  3. Describe and discuss the role/s of interprofessional team members and demonstrate interprofessional practice in the assessment, planning and delivery of care to patients/clients.
  4. Demonstrate accurate physical assessment in the collection of health data, differentiating between normal and abnormal findings.
  5. Demonstrate understanding and application of the principles of infection prevention and control.

Unit Content

  1. Safe administration of medicines.
  2. Clinical handover.
  3. Interprofessional practice.
  4. Nursing guidelines, frameworks, and standards for practice.
  5. Principles of infection prevention and control.
  6. Risk assessment.
  7. Principles of nursing documentation.
  8. Accurate vital sign measurements, documentation, and escalation of findings.
  9. Physical assessment of body systems including history, inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.
  10. Supporting patients/client with activities of daily living.

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 ^Clinical placement requirements, medication calculations test, simulation learning participation
Portfolio ^Professional e-portfolio
Performance ^Simulated clinical assessment

^ 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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