Introducing Advanced Practice Nursing (NURS90134)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
Contact information
Year Long
Overview
| Availability | Year Long |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
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:
- Appraise and develop advanced practice nursing models of care that have a positive impact on health service delivery and national health priorities
- Explain the relevant legislation, regulation and governance affecting health professionals and practice
- Discuss the role of leadership in practice and service development, improving patient/client outcomes and role and discipline promotion
- Initiate and maintain collaborative and effective relationships with healthcare consumers, their families and other healthcare providers to achieve optimal health outcomes
- Consistently demonstrates a systematic approach to comprehensive advanced health assessments and integrates available health-related information to identify the consumer's healthcare needs
- Clearly articulate and apply principles of advanced clinical decision making and diagnostic reasoning to clinical practice
- Demonstrate advanced oral and written communication skills to support professional practice (communicating findings, consumer education etc) and scholarship
- Identify areas for clinical, professional and academic development, generate specific learning objectives and design and implement strategies to address these objectives
Generic skills
- Highly developed cognitive, analytic and problem-solving skills with the capacity to apply them to scholarship and clinical practice;
- An ability to evaluate, synthesise and apply the research and professional literature to practice;
- Advanced skills for effective teamwork and leadership;
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills;
- The capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning
- A capacity to manage competing demands on time and negotiate with others to meet clinical and professional goals.
Last updated: 10 November 2023
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: 10 November 2023
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Patient assessments (6 in total - equivalent to 500 words each)
| Throughout the semester | 30% |
Integrated professional practice portfolio (one each semester, total two) comprised of objectives, IPP hours (75hr/portfolio) and clinical appraisal.
| During the teaching period | N/A |
Clinical leadership project plan
| First half of the teaching period | 0% |
150 Integrated Professional Practice (IPP) hours to be completed throughout the study period Hurdle requirement: Students must complete 150 hours of Integrated Professional Practice (IPP) to pass the subject. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Written assignment
| Due first half teaching period semester 1 | 20% |
Oral Presentation
| Due end of semester 1 | 10% |
Clinical Leadership Project
| Due end of semester 1 | 40% |
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Dates & times
- Year Long
Principal coordinator Dianne Crellin Coordinator John Thompson 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 27 February 2023 to 22 October 2023 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2023 Census date 31 May 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2023 Assessment period ends 17 November 2023 Year Long contact information
Time commitment details
In addition to the contact hours (Workshops, Online and IPP) students are expected to undertake self directed learning
Last updated: 10 November 2023
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: 10 November 2023