Consolidation of Nursing Practice
Credit points
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
Prerequisites
HNB3002 - Professional Experience Placement 4 Nursing
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
In this unit students will reflect on their practice and recognise their responsibility for lifelong learning as future Registered Nurses. Students will be supported to produce a substantive portfolio that demonstrates their integrated professional capabilities and insights into practice. In this capstone unit, students will consolidate knowledge and integrate theory and reflect on practice from previous units with 160 hours of embedded Professional Experience Placement (PEP). The portfolio will draw on students’ nursing practice across the lifespan taking into account Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, other cultures and people of diversity across a range of primary, secondary and tertiary settings.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Negotiate and validate a plan for professional learning consistent with the placement context of practice and aligned to the Registered Nurse Standards of 2016;
- Exemplify cultural responsiveness, sensitivity and inclusive practice and promote the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other cultures and people of diversity;
- Exemplify a broad range of therapeutic and intraprofessional and interprofessional communication skills to engage in person-centred collaborative practice;
- Elucidate intellectual independence through the application of critical thought and judgement in professional and therapeutic nursing practice;
- Appraise ethical dilemmas and issues arising in professional practice, exemplifying professional values and ethics;
- Articulate and exemplify nursing values, codes of ethics and conduct, and the distinctive role and contribution of nursing research in addressing real world problems encountered in professional practice; and
- Integrate previous knowledge and exhibit safe and effective care related to pathophysiology and pharmacotherapeutics and quality use of medicines.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
The assessment tasks link the learning outcomes and graduate capabilities. In the first assessment of this 24-credit point unit, students will submit an early proposal for a portfolio. In the second assessment task, students will demonstrate development of knowledge with submission of a progress report. In the third assessment task, students will demonstrate reflective writing and narrative skills with submission of the summative portfolio. The fourth assessment will demonstrate theoretical knowledge and presentation skills with a narrated visual presentation. The last assessment will demonstrate clinical knowledge and skills with the completion of 160 hours of PEP and satisfactory pass on the summative Australian Nursing Standard Assessment Tool (ANSAT).
Assessment type: Report | Grade: 10%
Proposal (500 words)
Assessment type: Assignment | Grade: 15%
Progress report (750 words)
Assessment type: Portfolio | Grade: 50%
Portfolio related to PEP (3000 words, which includes a reflection, appendices and references).
Assessment type: Presentation | Grade: 25%
Narrated visual presentation (20 minutes)
Assessment type: Other | Grade: 0%
PEP ANSAT (hurdle) 160 hours
NB. Consideration for submission of assessment will be contingent on the students allocated PEP to ensure that assessments are scaffolded throughout the eight weeks of delivery.
To gain an overall pass in this unit, students must attempt all of the clinical simulations for essential skill development as per ANMAC expectations. Any absences must be supported with documentation to the unit convenor. In this final unit of the program, students must achieve a Satisfactory Standard in the summative assessment (a satisfactory score across all assessable items) on the Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT) and complete 160 hours of professional practice in order to pass this unit.
Attendance requirements for simulations are integral to safe nursing practice and prepare students for PEP.
All clinical assessment tools with the correct unit code, must be completed and uploaded to the WIL system in full within 5 business working days of completing placement. Any assessments not uploaded in this timeframe, or where the tools uploaded include partial, incomplete or missing documents will result in a Fail grade for the unit. Clinical assessment tools to be submitted comprise a signed Nursing ANSAT and a timesheet reflecting 160 hours supervised Nursing Professional Practice Experience.
Required reading
Required readings will be made available on VU Collaborate.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):