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

    Advanced Nursing Practice 1
  • Unit Code

    NSP5302
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    6
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Laura HYNES

Description

This unit focuses on enhancing students' practice development by augmenting clinical decision making and problem solving skills. Students will create their own professional development plan and learning strategy to meet their specific learning objectives in their clinical practice. Theoretical principles relevant to their area of clinical specialisation will be reinforced during clinical practicum.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AHP5101, NSP5242

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and evaluate the scope of advanced nursing practice in their specialist area
  2. Critically analyse their learning needs and develop a professional development plan and learning strategy for achieving their specialist practice standards
  3. Critically reflect on their level of competence of advanced nursing practice in their specialist area according to specialist practice standards
  4. Create a professional portfolio evidencing competence to specialist professional standards
  5. Demonstrate their ability to integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, clinical skills, personal capabilities, professional practice and cultural and consumer awareness in their area of clinical practice

Unit Content

  1. The scope of advanced nursing practice
  2. Developing your advanced nursing practice role in your specialist area
  3. Advanced clinical assessment skills
  4. Culturally responsive nursing practice
  5. Reflective practice
  6. Professional Practice and creating your eportfolio
  7. Challenges relevant to the role of advanced nursing practice
  8. Specialist nursing and collaborative management of patients within their area of clinical practice

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery of modules, tutorials and discussion boards.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProfessional Development Plan30%
Reflective PracticeSpecialist Practice20%
Portfolio ^Professional Portfolio50%

^ 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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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

    Advanced Nursing Practice 1
  • Unit Code

    NSP5302
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    6
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Laura HYNES

Description

This unit focuses on enhancing students' practice development by augmenting clinical decision making and problem solving skills. Students will create their own professional development plan and learning strategy to meet their specific learning objectives in their clinical practice. Theoretical principles relevant to their area of clinical specialisation will be reinforced during clinical practicum.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AHP5101, NSP5242

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and evaluate the scope of advanced nursing practice in their specialist area
  2. Critically analyse their learning needs and develop a professional development plan and learning strategy for achieving their specialist practice standards
  3. Critically reflect on their level of competence of advanced nursing practice in their specialist area according to specialist practice standards
  4. Create a professional portfolio evidencing competence to specialist professional standards
  5. Demonstrate their ability to integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, clinical skills, personal capabilities, professional practice and cultural and consumer awareness in their area of clinical practice

Unit Content

  1. The scope of advanced nursing practice
  2. Developing your advanced nursing practice role in your specialist area
  3. Advanced clinical assessment skills
  4. Culturally responsive nursing practice
  5. Reflective practice
  6. Professional Practice and creating your eportfolio
  7. Challenges relevant to the role of advanced nursing practice
  8. Specialist nursing and collaborative management of patients within their area of clinical practice

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery of modules, tutorials and discussion boards.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProfessional Development Plan30%
Reflective PracticeSpecialist Practice20%
Portfolio ^Professional Portfolio50%

^ 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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