School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Nursing Practice 6
  • Unit Code

    NPU3606
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Helen FALCUS

Description

This final work integrated learning unit facilitates students to demonstrate nursing knowledge and skills learned throughout the course. The focus of this unit is on interprofessional practice, teamwork, prioritisation, communication and clinical leadership. Students will incorporate critical thinking and clinical reasoning in their decision-making and delivery of care to a group of patients. This is a designated unit, which means only one attempt is allowed. This unit must be undertaken in the final semester of studies.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass Nursing Practice 5 (NPU3505) and Human Processes 5 (HPU3505)

Only students studying in the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) or Bachelor of Science (Nursing)/Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) may enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

NPP3201

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate professional competency against the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice in a work integrated learning setting.
  2. Produce evidence of beginning professional development aligned to scope of practice and the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.
  3. Demonstrate critical thinking in the application of safe, evidence-based nursing care.
  4. Demonstrate collaborative and effective interprofessional practice in the assessment, planning and delivery of care to patients/clients.
  5. Demonstrate competence in non-technical nursing skills.

Unit Content

  1. Safe administration of medicines.
  2. Clinical handover.
  3. Interprofessional practice.
  4. Nursing guidelines, frameworks, and standards for practice.
  5. Management of aggression and situational awareness.
  6. Clinical leadership, decision making, prioritisation, and delegation.
  7. Managing stress and fatigue.
  8. Care of the dying patient and collaborating with families.
  9. Medical emergency in the context of a busy ward.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Practicum75 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Practicum75 x 4 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered
Practicum813 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered5 x 2 hour lecture
Practicum85 x 4 hour workshopNot Offered5 x 4 hour workshop

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will complete a full-time, 240 hour clinical placement in medical, surgical, critical care, older adult care or community setting aimed at developing proficiency in technical and non-technical nursing skills and knowledge.

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
Performance ^Simulated clinical assessment
Practicum ^Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT)
Portfolio ^Professional e-Portfolio

^ 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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