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

    Academic and Communication Skills for Nursing
  • Unit Code

    NSI1102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Carol CREVACORE

Description

This unit will enable students to understand how the effective and efficient functioning of health care facilities, the multi-disciplinary team and nurses, is dependent upon sound interpersonal and professional modes of communication and conduct. Oral, electronic and written communication skills, including effective listening, therapeutic relationships and the importance of being culturally aware when delivering care, are a feature of this unit. Academic literacy will be introduced as a foundation to successful professional discourse. The conventions and practices of academic writing are explored and students will develop an understanding of how to interpret and analyse information and to argue a case based on evidence and logic. The unit will help build understanding of information literacies, research skills and how to evaluate evidence.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Classes may be scheduled for the weekend.

Prerequisite Rule

Only students studying course Y61 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

NUM1102 - Communication Skills for Nurses and Midwives

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the importance of building a therapeutic relationship when undertaking care.
  2. Demonstrate effective; questioning, active listening verbal and non-verbal communication during a patient interaction.
  3. Write and produce documents that adhere to the conventions of academic writing.
  4. Critically interpret and analyse texts in order to structure and synthesise information to form an academic argument.

Unit Content

  1. Verbal and non-verbal communication.
  2. Interviewing skills, active listening, questioning and feedback.
  3. Development of therapeutic relationship.
  4. Effective and sensitive communication with vulnerable populations including those from culturally diverse backgrounds.
  5. Inter-professional communication.
  6. The use of social media and information technology in professional communication.
  7. Academic writing processes including literature searching, paraphrasing and referencing.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAcademic writing and referencing activities.30%
AssignmentPatient/client interview with reflective essay30%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam40%

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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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

    Academic and Communication Skills for Nursing
  • Unit Code

    NSI1102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Carol CREVACORE

Description

This unit will enable students to understand how the effective and efficient functioning of health care facilities, the multi-disciplinary team and nurses, is dependent upon sound interpersonal and professional modes of communication and conduct. Oral, electronic and written communication skills, including effective listening, therapeutic relationships and the importance of being culturally aware when delivering care, are a feature of this unit. Academic literacy will be introduced as a foundation to successful professional discourse. The conventions and practices of academic writing are explored and students will develop an understanding of how to interpret and analyse information and to argue a case based on evidence and logic. The unit will help build understanding of information literacies, research skills and how to evaluate evidence.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Classes may be scheduled for the weekend.

Prerequisite Rule

Only students studying course Y61 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

NUM1102 - Communication Skills for Nurses and Midwives

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the importance of building a therapeutic relationship when undertaking care.
  2. Demonstrate effective; questioning, active listening verbal and non-verbal communication during a patient interaction.
  3. Write and produce documents that adhere to the conventions of academic writing.
  4. Critically interpret and analyse texts in order to structure and synthesise information to form an academic argument.

Unit Content

  1. Verbal and non-verbal communication.
  2. Interviewing skills, active listening, questioning and feedback.
  3. Development of therapeutic relationship.
  4. Effective and sensitive communication with vulnerable populations including those from culturally diverse backgrounds.
  5. Inter-professional communication.
  6. The use of social media and information technology in professional communication.
  7. Academic writing processes including literature searching, paraphrasing and referencing.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAcademic writing and referencing activities.30%
AssignmentPatient/client interview with reflective essay30%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam40%

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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