Developing Advanced Practice (NURS90163)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
Overview
| Availability | Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
|---|---|
| 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: 4 March 2025
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| NURS90134 | Introducing Advanced Practice | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - 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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Written assignment
| First half of the teaching period | 40% |
Integrated professional practice (IPP) portfolio: 1. IPP objectives and plan 2. IPP log (of 75 hours work integrated learning), objectives review and clinical performance appraisal (CPA).
| Throughout the teaching period | 0% |
Workplace-based assessments (4 patient assessments equivalent to 500 words per assessment)
| Throughout the semester | 60% |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Jamie Wheelahan Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 7 x 1-hour webinars 1 x 8-hour workshop Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 July 2025 to 26 October 2025 Last self-enrol date 8 August 2025 Census date 1 September 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 September 2025 Assessment period ends 21 November 2025 Semester 2 contact information
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Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Nurse Practitioner)
Last updated: 4 March 2025