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Developing Advanced Practice (NURS90163)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
Availability | Semester 2 |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject builds on the content covered in NURS90134 Introducing Advanced Practice Nursing and has been designed to help prepare students for autonomous nurse practitioner practice. This subject will place an emphasis on expanding the student’s health assessment skills to include the judicious use of diagnostic investigations, the ability to synthesise individual health data and to develop sophisticated clinical decision-making capacity. Governance structures and innovations at both an organisational and governmental level will also be explored and how these ensure that safe, quality patient care is delivered.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Articulate and apply principles of decision making and diagnostic reasoning in clinical practice
- Evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of available diagnostic tools and consider the implications for clinical decision-making
- Demonstrate judicious use of diagnostic investigations to supplement the health assessment and inform clinical decisions within the speciality area of practice
- Accurately interpret the results of common diagnostic investigations in the context of other consumer health data
- Explain the function of clinical governance in reducing clinical risk and identify strategies used in health organisations to minimise risk and improve consumer safety
- Appraise the role that health informatics have on the availability and integration of health care data, and the provision of decision support and consumer safety
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
- Capacity for reflection as well as self-directed and collaborative learning
- Ability to manage time effectively for planning and completing work to deadline
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90134 | Introducing Advanced Practice | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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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Written assignment
| First half of the teaching period | 40% |
Integrated Professional Practice Portfolio 1. IPP plan and objectives 2. IPP log (75 hours), objectives review and performance appraisal
| Throughout the teaching period | 0% |
Workplace-based assessments (4 patient assessments equivalent to 500 words per assessment)
| Throughout the semester | 60% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator John Thompson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Nurse Practitioner)
Last updated: 31 January 2024