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Preparing for Advanced Practice Nursing (NURS90133)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 (Early-Start) |
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This subject builds on the content covered in the first year of the program and has been designed to help prepare the student for advanced practice nursing. This subject will place emphasis on expanding the student’s health assessment skills to include the judicious use of diagnostic investigations, the ability to synthesis individual health data and to develop sophisticated clinical decision-making capacity.
Intended learning outcomes
Following completion of this subject it is expected that the student will be able to:
- Clearly articulate and apply principles of decision making and diagnostic reasoning in clinical practice
- Recognise the impact of bias on decision making and discuss strategies to minimise the negative effects in clinical practice
- Understand the function of a clinical governance in reducing clinical risk and identify strategies used in their service to minimise risk and improve patient safety
- Demonstrate ability to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of available diagnostic tools and consider the implications for clinical decision-making
- Demonstrate judicious use of diagnostic investigation to supplement the health assessment and inform clinical decisions
- Interpret the results of diagnostic investigations in the context of other client health data
- Integrate patient/client health and social data, basic science and research data to make a patient/client focused assessment of their health needs
- Use highly developed cognitive, analytic, problem-solving and diagnostic reasoning skills to interpret health assessment findings to interpret assessment findings in complex and unfamiliar circumstances
- Understand the role that health informatics have on the availability and integration of health care data, the provision of decision support and patient safety and access to powerful clinically orientated data sets.
Generic skills
- Highly developed cognitive, analytic and problem-solving skills in the discipline area, characterised by flexibility of approach;
- The ability and self-confidence to comprehend complex concepts, to express them lucidly, whether orally or in writing, and to confront unfamiliar problems;
- Where appropriate, advanced working skills in the application of computer systems and software and a receptiveness to the opportunities offered by new technologies;
- An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature in the discipline;
- Advanced skills and techniques applicable to the discipline;
- Advanced competencies in areas of professional expertise and/or scholarship;
- The capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning;
- The capacity to value and participate in projects which require team-work;
- A capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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75 Integrated Professional Practice (IPP) hours to be completed throughout the study period
| Throughout the semester | N/A |
Patient assessments (4 in total) Due Week 3, 6, 9, 12
| Throughout the semester | 60% |
Written assignment
| Week 8 | 40% |
Completion of 75 Integrated Professional Practice (IPP) hours
| Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total - 170 hours On-campus – 16 hours (2hr IPP workshops + 14 hours subject workshops) Online – 16 hours Integrated professional practice – 75 hours * IPP - Integrated professional practice (Information about IPP placements can be found in the IPP Guide for Students) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 February 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 6 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020
Time commitment details
In addition to the contact hours (Workshops, Online and IPP) students are expected to undertake self directed learning
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Recommended texts and other resources
Bickley, L.S. (2017). Bates’ guide to physical examination (12th ed.). Wolters Kluwer: Philadelphia.
Gibson, R.N (ed). (2009). Essential Medical Imaging. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
Gargarni, Y. (2016). Crash course in Haematology and Immunology: Updated Print and eBook edition. (4th ed.). St Louis: Elsevier, Mosby.
Royal College of Pathologist of Austrasia (2015). Royal College of Pathology of Australia manual. Available at: https://www.rcpa.edu.au/Library/Practising-Pathology/RCPA-Manual/Home
Ball, J. W., Dains, J.E., Flynn, J.A., Solomon, B. S. & Stewart, R. W. (2015). Seidel’s guide to physical examination (Mosby’s guide to physical examination) (8th ed.). St Louis: Elsevier, Mosby.
Talley, N.J., & O’Connor, S. (2017). Clinical examination: A systematic guide to physical diagnosis, Volumes 1 and 2 (8th ed.). Sydney: Elsevier.
Specific reading material and web-based resources selected by the subject coordinator will be made available to students through the Learning Management System (LMS).
Last updated: 3 November 2022