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

    Nurse Practitioner Professional Practice 1
  • Unit Code

    NSP6104
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Adam MCCAVERY

Description

This unit involves clinical placement and will support the student to actively engage in learning activities to develop expertise in conducting comprehensive patient assessment and high level skills in clinical reasoning and clinical communication. Students clinical learning activities will be framed by contextual and philosophical models of primary health care and development of knowledge, skills and leadership attributes to bridge the gap between interventional and primary health care, from the perspective of both contexts. Student learning will focus on approaches to holistic health assessment taking into account the biophysical, psychological, and socio-cultural influence on health and illness.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MNP6103 and must pass either MNP6100 or NCS6100.

Only students studying course L88 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NSP6102.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Relate the philosophy and the global and local goals of the primary health care and the contribution to continuity of care, community and individual health and wellness.
  2. Develop a systematic and holistic nursing approach to health assessment that includes use of relevant evidence-based assessment tools and technologies and health infomatics.
  3. Apply clinical skills and knowledge in advanced and comprehensive health assessment that: a. incorporates evaluation of biophysical, mental health and sociocultural data b. attends to the specific health issues and cultural sensibilities relevant to health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
  4. Apply a patient-centred approach to differentiate between normal and abnormal in human structure and functioning and to communicate these findings to the person and their family.
  5. Develop skill in verbal communication of patient assessment process and outcomes including documentation and oral communication modalities.

Unit Content

  1. Primary health care philosophy and the principles of integrated care.
  2. Systems and processes to guide comprehensive health assessment.
  3. Application of a systematic approach to comprehensive patient assessment.
  4. Selection and administration of evidence-based assessment tools relevant to a range of patient presentations.
  5. Approaches to health assessment that are sensitive to cultural imperatives for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other cultural groups.
  6. Processes for requesting diagnostic and radiography tests.
  7. Clinical communication skills relevant to modalities of professional communication and to engaging patients and families including health technologies and nursing informatics.
  8. Collaborative and team practice in patient assessment.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is a contextual, practical application of learning in Unit MNP6103 Holistic Health Assessment. Students will work with their Clinical Mentors to develop skills, confidence and judgement in conducting comprehensive health assessment. Accordingly learning is experiential, iterative and structured and guided by a Clinical Learning and Teaching Handbook customised for each of the student and the Clinical Mentor users. To support the experiential component thirteen one hour tutorials will be conducted online. The unit includes 200 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice experience located in a generalist clinical setting.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Performance ^Clinical placement requirements, objectives, reflections, clinical logbook, mentor report and health assessment documentation.
Assignment ^Health Technologies Assignment

^ 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

    Nurse Practitioner Professional Practice 1
  • Unit Code

    NSP6104
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Adam MCCAVERY

Description

This unit involves clinical placement and will support the student to actively engage in learning activities to develop expertise in conducting comprehensive patient assessment and high level skills in clinical reasoning and clinical communication. Students clinical learning activities will be framed by contextual and philosophical models of primary health care and development of knowledge, skills and leadership attributes to bridge the gap between interventional and primary health care, from the perspective of both contexts. Student learning will focus on approaches to holistic health assessment taking into account the biophysical, psychological, and socio-cultural influence on health and illness.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MNP6103 and must pass either MNP6100 or NCS6100.

Only students studying course L88 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NSP6102.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Relate the philosophy and the global and local goals of the primary health care and the contribution to continuity of care, community and individual health and wellness.
  2. Develop a systematic and holistic nursing approach to health assessment that includes use of relevant evidence-based assessment tools and technologies and health infomatics.
  3. Apply clinical skills and knowledge in advanced and comprehensive health assessment that: a. incorporates evaluation of biophysical, mental health and sociocultural data b. attends to the specific health issues and cultural sensibilities relevant to health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
  4. Apply a patient-centred approach to differentiate between normal and abnormal in human structure and functioning and to communicate these findings to the person and their family.
  5. Develop skill in verbal communication of patient assessment process and outcomes including documentation and oral communication modalities.

Unit Content

  1. Primary health care philosophy and the principles of integrated care.
  2. Systems and processes to guide comprehensive health assessment.
  3. Application of a systematic approach to comprehensive patient assessment.
  4. Selection and administration of evidence-based assessment tools relevant to a range of patient presentations.
  5. Approaches to health assessment that are sensitive to cultural imperatives for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other cultural groups.
  6. Processes for requesting diagnostic and radiography tests.
  7. Clinical communication skills relevant to modalities of professional communication and to engaging patients and families including health technologies and nursing informatics.
  8. Collaborative and team practice in patient assessment.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is a contextual, practical application of learning in Unit MNP6103 Holistic Health Assessment. Students will work with their Clinical Mentors to develop skills, confidence and judgement in conducting comprehensive health assessment. Accordingly learning is experiential, iterative and structured and guided by a Clinical Learning and Teaching Handbook customised for each of the student and the Clinical Mentor users. To support the experiential component thirteen one hour tutorials will be conducted online. The unit includes 200 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice experience located in a generalist clinical setting.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Performance ^Clinical placement requirements, objectives, reflections, clinical logbook, mentor report and health assessment documentation.
Assignment ^Health Technologies Assignment

^ 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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