Introducing Advanced Practice (NURS90134)

Intended learning outcomes

On the completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Initiate and maintain collaborative, respectful and effective relationships with healthcare consumers, their families and other healthcare providers to achieve optimal health outcomes.
• Provide a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare consumers and their families to support shared decision making.
• Demonstrate a systematic, person-focused and comprehensive approach to advanced health assessments and integration of health-related information to identify the consumer's healthcare needs.
• Apply clearly articulated principles of advanced clinical decision making and diagnostic reasoning to interpret assessment findings.
• Demonstrate capacity to communicate clinical assessment and decision-making orally, in writing and using various interfaces to consumers and their families and other healthcare professionals.
• Identify areas for clinical, professional and academic development, generate specific learning objectives, design and implement strategies to address these objectives and measures to demonstrate their achievement.

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
• Capacity to communicate effectively to 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
• Effective time management skills for planning and completing work to deadline