Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Nurse Practitioner) (MC-ANPNP) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, graduates should be able to:

• Conduct comprehensive health assessments and develop holistic consumer-focused health care plans that respect individual diversity- reflect health care team, consumer and family collaboration and acknowledge the social and psychological determinants of health.
• Effectively implement, monitor the impact of and modify as needed a variety of evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacology therapies to address negotiated healthcare goals demonstrating the quality use of medicines in accordance with relevant legislation and regulation.
• Collaborate effectively with consumers, their families and significant others, colleagues (including clinicians from other disciplines), healthcare services/organisations and other agencies to achieve continuity of care, minimise the risk of consumer harm and promote ongoing quality improvement.
• Apply approaches to clinical care and service delivery that demonstrate and promote equitable, judicious, and sustainable use of healthcare resources.
• Reflect on and promote the development of the nursing profession from national and international perspectives and promote advanced practice nursing roles in service delivery, workforce reform, education, and research.
• Critique and apply evidence to inform clinical decision-making, identify gaps in discipline-specific knowledge, and contribute to future clinical and research inquiry.
• Examine and apply methods for appraising health service models, policies and practice to identify opportunities for practice and service improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrate professional and clinical leadership and advocacy to influence and lead practice, service and policy change to achieve better outcomes for consumers, their families, health care providers, the community and the healthcare system.
• Identify their own learning and developmental needs and those of colleagues and consumers and their families and use a range of strategies to provide and evaluate education to meet these needs.
• Use influence and leadership to promote professional growth and development in colleagues to ensure safe and effective practice to the full extent of scope.

Generic skills

• Capacity to work collaboratively with people from diverse communities to achieve goals
• Ability to engage respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to understand and incorporate indigenous ways of knowing
• Ability to communicate to effectively gather and share essential information
• Ability to critically evaluate new ideas, data, research findings, methodologies and theoretical frameworks
• Capacity to use technology and online resources to support learning and innovation
• Capacity to apply analytic and decision-making skills and system-level thinking to identify and address challenges
• Professional leadership and change management skills
• Capacity for reflection as well as self-directed and collaborative learning
• Effective time management skills for planning and completing work to deadline

Graduate attributes