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Unit of Study NRS30002 - Preparation for Entry to Practice (2016)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    (PIE10001 Professional Understanding OR NRS10451 Clinical Nursing I) AND (PIE10002 Skills Development OR NRS10463 Clinical Nursing II) AND PIE10003 Primary Care AND PIE10004 Chronic Health Nursing AND PIE10005 Mental Health Nursing

  • Co-requisites

    NRS30001 - Utilising Research to Promote Quality in Health Care

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

In preparation for transition to practice this unit offers students the opportunity to build on their capabilities to enter the workforce. The unit assists students to adapt to continuous change and the emergence of new roles and responsibilities in the health care environments. This unit provides students with the opportunity to contribute to a comprehensive portfolio demonstrating their acquisition of knowledge and clinical experience as relevant to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) competency standards and their commitment to lifelong learning.

Unit content

Topic 1: Preparation for transition to practice 

  • Identify employment opportunities
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the requirements of employment applications
  • Explore the requirements of the professional interview

Topic 2: Career Planning

  • Identify various roles of the Registered Nurse in health care
  • Explore the educational and experiential requirements to achieve determined career pathways

Topic 3: Professional Portfolio

  • Identify regulatory requirements of a Registered Nurse
  • Demonstrate and construct a record for continuous professional development as a Registered Nurse
  • Reflective practice
  • Demonstrate achievement of the NMBA domains using evidence of integrated knowledge and clinical experience. 

Topic 4: Establishing your professional identity

  • Coping with confrontation in the workplace
  • Resilience
  • Cultural competence
  • Globalisation and nursing

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online Session 1 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Integrate and critically evaluate competency standards from the NMBA
2 Understand and construct professional employment strategies
3 Critically reflect and explore personal and professional identity in nursing
4 Critically explore career pathways and associated professional development strategies
5 Synthesise appropriate personal strategies and support networks to be utilised during professional practice

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Integrate and critically evaluate competency standards from the NMBA
    • GA4:
  2. Understand and construct professional employment strategies
    • GA2:
  3. Critically reflect and explore personal and professional identity in nursing
    • GA4:
  4. Critically explore career pathways and associated professional development strategies
    • GA5:
  5. Synthesise appropriate personal strategies and support networks to be utilised during professional practice
    • GA4:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.