Developing Advanced Practice (NURS90163)

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