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Introducing Advanced Practice Nursing (NURS90134)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On 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
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This subject provides foundational knowledge and skill to introduce advanced practice nursing to the student. This subject will focus on a range of areas critical to the development of a nurse practitioner capable of providing high standards of clinically focused care and leading practice and service development: the Australian healthcare system and policy development, the burden of chronic disease and the social determinants of health, clinical leadership and an introduction to advanced health assessment skills.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Understand the Australian health care system and how healthcare priorities and the burden of chronic disease influences healthcare policy
- Recognise how workforce reform, including NP role development, has been used to address healthcare priorities and healthcare professional shortages.
- Identify nursing models of service delivery which feature advanced practice and their role in healthcare and workforce reform and apply to practice context
- Discuss the political, professional, economic, ethical and social influences on the implementation of advanced practice services (specifically the nurse practitioner) and apply to practice context.
- Understand the legislation, regulation and governance affecting nurse practitioner roles and practice
- Identify methods to evaluate the impact of service models on service delivery, access to and quality of care and patient outcomes and apply this to practice context
- Discuss the role of leadership in practice and service development and apply to practice context
- Initiate and maintain collaborative relationships with other health care providers to establish effective communication skills and multidisciplinary relationships to achieve optimal health outcomes
- Negotiate learning needs with multi-disciplinary health care professionals to ensure appropriate mentorship for development of knowledge and skills.
- Apply a structured framework for client health assessment that is effective (ensures all relevant data are collected) and efficient (is organised and timely)
- Adopt a client-focused approach to health assessment and shared decision making .
- Undertake a thorough, accurate and comprehensive patient/client health history, which includes details about the individuals health problem, psychosocial, economic and cultural influences on their health and their family and community supports.
- Conduct a competent and efficient examination of a patient / client which is sufficiently comprehensive to identify/address their health care needs.
- Integrate assessment findings, information from other sources and scientific knowledge to inform the health assessment, an understanding of their health literacy and their healthcare needs.
- Use highly developed cognitive, analytic, problem-solving and diagnostic reasoning skills to interpret health assessment findings;
- Communicate health assessment findings effectively to members of the multi-disciplinary team, both orally and in writing
- Communicate assessment findings and health related information effectively (showing consideration for health literacy, culture and language) to the client and family.
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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Clinical leadership project plan Due week 3 Semester 1
| First half of the teaching period | N/A |
Patient assessments (6 in total - equivalent to 500 words each) Due Week 3, 8, Semester 1 Week 3, 6, 9, 12 Semester 2
| Throughout the semester | 30% |
Integrated professional practice (IPP) objectives and clinical appraisals (One/semester completed during the IPP hours allocated to this subject) Due Week 4 and 12 Semester 1 Week 2 and 12 Semester 2
| During the teaching period | N/A |
150 Integrated Professional Practice (IPP) hours to be completed throughout the study period
| Throughout the semester | N/A |
Oral Presentation Due Week 11 Semester 1
| End of semester | 10% |
Clinical Leadership Project
| End of semester | 40% |
Written assignment Due Week 8 Semester 1
| First half of the teaching period | 20% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Year Long
Principal coordinator John Thompson Coordinator Dianne Crellin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total - 340 hours On-campus – 40 hours Online – 30 hours Integrated professional practice – 150 hours * IPP - Integrated professional practice (Information about IPP placements can be found in the Clinical Practice Guide for Students) Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 31 May 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 2 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 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
Duckett, S. and Willcox, S (2015). The Australian health care system. (5th ed.) Oxford, South Melbourne
Hamric, A.B., Hanson, C.M., Tracy, M. F. and O’Grady, E. T. (2013). Advanced Practice Nursing. (5th ed.) Elsevier, St Louis.
Stanley D. (2011) Clinical Leadership: Innovation into practice. Palgrave Macmillan. Melbourne.
Bickley, L.S. (2016). Bates’ guide to physical examination (12th ed.). Lippincott Williams and Wilkins: Philadelphia.
Seidel, H.M., Ball, J. W., Dains, J.E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R.W. (2015). Mosby’s guide to physical examination (8th ed). St Louis: Mosby.
Talley, N.J., & O’Connor, S. (2017) Clinical examination: A systematic guide to physical diagnosis (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).
- Off-campus study
This subject has a workplace component
This subject will include 150 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice (IPP). Allocation of this experience will be negotiated between the clinical agency, the student and the course coordinator. The inclusion of IPP is mandated for Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) acredited Nurse Practitioner porgrams of study
Last updated: 3 November 2022