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Transition to Nursing Practice (NURS90157)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
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This is a capstone subject in which students will further consolidate and apply the knowledge they have acquired throughout the degree through case-based learning scenarios which feature complex patient health problems.
The capstone experience is in the form of a professional e-portfolio where throughout the academic year and throughout their clinical placement practice students must reflect on their evolving practice within the context of Nursing and Midwifery Registered Nurse Standard of Practice 2018. To support this transition, students also have access to elective subject that would support their interest in particular area of nursing. In the clinical skills laboratory students will refine and consolidate their procedural skills, including basic life support and advanced life support simulations, utilising a self-directed learning approach.
Under the guidance of clinical educators and preceptors, students focus on the transition from nursing student to registered nurse with the goal of achieving readiness to practice as a registered nurse. Through these clinical placements, students have an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills to solve problems that arise in practical settings and professional contexts and develop an integrated understanding of knowledge and practice.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Consolidate knowledge of the dimensions of the professional nursing role in the context of providing complex nursing care in a variety of settings
- Integrate the core principles covered in the subject and its pre-requisites, to develop practice knowledge and skills to support comprehensive patient assessment, planning and monitoring
- Incorporate the principles of evidence-based practice in interprofessional practice, demonstrating collaboration and advanced communication skills
- Apply knowledge of patient assessment, pharmacotherapy, evidence-based guidelines to select nursing interventions for patients with acute, chronic, and complex conditions
- Develop advanced skills in professional communication, including an understanding of professional boundaries, cultural safety, self-awareness and strategies to facilitate a therapeutic nurse patient relationship
- Apply skills in clinical decision making, problem-solving, critical thinking, reflective practice and self-directed learning to the to care for patients with complex disease processes across the lifespan
- Apply health assessment principles to plan, develop, implement, evaluate and revise comprehensive nursing care plans for patients with acute, chronic and complex across the lifespan
- Accurately and professionally document assessment findings and therapeutic interventions including recording quality data in electronic medical records in person-centred models of care adhering to data protection and governance needed to interpret EMR data for effective interdisciplinary communication
- Demonstrate safe and appropriate use of core digital health technologies, including electronic medical records, telehealth and electronic medical administration in simulated conditions
- Comprehend and apply the legal requirements for nursing interventions
- Demonstrate practical applications of evidence-based pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics therapies applicable to clinical practice when caring for chronic and complex patients with aim to optimise therapeutic planning across the lifespan, medication safety and risk and medication error management.
Generic skills
- capacity for information seeking, retrieval and evaluation
- critical thinking and analytical skills in individual and interprofessional team settings
- capacity to rethink own ideas and an openness to new ideas
- appreciate how social-historical structures, including colonisation, contribute to social inequity and exclusion, and develop strategies that help redress this
- development of digital literacy skills required to communicate new knowledge
- demonstrate a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of scholarship and practice
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90154 | Foundations of Nursing Practice | Year Long (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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2 x Drug calculation Test (on line assessment, open book)
| Prior to each clinical placement throughout the teaching period | 20% |
1 x Clinical communication during clinical encounter
| Prior to each clinical placement | 10% |
2 x Case study analysis (online assessment, open book). One to be completed each semester.
| Mid semester | 20% |
Professional E-Portfolio based on four domains in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered Nurse Standards for Practice (2016), 4000 words, Week 12, Semester 2, 50% see: https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/codes-guidelines-statements/professional-standards/registered-nurse-standards-for-practice.aspx
| Week 12, Semester 2 | 50% |
2 x Completion of Clinical Assessment tool ANSAT
| In final week of each Professional Experience placement during teaching period | N/A |
2 x Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
| Prior to each clinical placement throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Professional Experience placement assigned during Professional placement period
| Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Attendance at all Simulated Learning Laboratory classes
| Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Year Long
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 48 hours of lectures/seminars/workshops/webinars 48 hours of lab simulation Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 May 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Andre, K., Heartfield, M., & Cusack, L. (2017). Portfolios: for health professionals. (3 rd ed.). Chatswood, NSW: Elsevier Australia (a division of Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd).
Brotto V, Rafferty K. (2020). Clinical dosage calculations. (3rd. ed.). Cengage Learning.
Brown, D., Edwards, H., Seaton, L., Buckley, T., Lewis, S. L., Dirksen, S. R., . . . Bucher, L. (Eds.). (2017). Lewis' Medical-Surgical nursing. Assessment and management of clinical problems (5th ed.). Sydney: Mosby Elsevier.
Broyles, BE., McKenzie, G., Pleunik, S., Page, S., Reiss, BS., & Evans, ME., (2020) Pharmacology in Nursing. 3rd Australian & New Zealand Edition. (3rd ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia
Calleja, P., Theobald, K., & Harvey, T. (2020). Health Assessment & Physical Examination. 3rd Australian & New Zealand Edition. (3rd ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.
Chang, E. & Daly, J. (2020). Transition in Nursing: preparing for professional practice (5th ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier.
Crisp,J., Rebeiro, G., Douglas, C ., & Waters, D. (Eds.). (2020). Potter and Perry's fundamentals of nursing / Australian adaptation (6th ed.). Chatswood, N.S.W: Elsevier Australia.
Levett-Jones, T. &Bourgeois, S. (2018). The Clinical placement: an essential guide for nursing students. (4th ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier.
Reberio, G., Jack, l., Scully, N., & Wilson, D. (2017). Fundamentals of nursing clinical skills workbook. (3rd ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Nursing Science
Last updated: 31 January 2024