Introducing Advanced Practice (NURS90134)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
About this subject
Contact information
Semester 1
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 - Dual-Delivery |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject provides foundational knowledge and skills to introduce advanced practice nursing to the student. This subject will focus on the development of a nurse practitioner capable of providing high standards of clinically focused care. To achieve this, students will develop advanced health assessment and clinical decision-making skills that can be applied to identify the healthcare needs of consumers.
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
Last updated: 4 March 2025
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Written assignment
| Mid semester | 40% |
Integrated professional practice portfolio: 1. IPP plan and objectives 2. IPP log (of 75 hours work integrated learning), objectives review and performance appraisal
| Throughout the semester | 0% |
Patient assessments (4 in total - equivalent to 500 words each)
| Throughout the semester | 60% |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Dianne Crellin Coordinator John Thompson Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours Scheduled as workshops held over 3 days Tutorials (6 hours ) Practical workshops (14 hours) Total time commitment 150 hours Teaching period 3 March 2025 to 1 June 2025 Last self-enrol date 14 March 2025 Census date 31 March 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 May 2025 Assessment period ends 27 June 2025 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
75 hrs IPP (during which students will complete IPP portfolio) 55 hrs to complete written assessment and review LMS content
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: 4 March 2025
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: 4 March 2025