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Unit of Study NRS82005 - Transformative Clinical Practices (2018)

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  • Enrolment information

    The laboratory activities within this unit require students to fulfil certain vaccination compliance requirements prior to attending laboratory classes. As some vaccination protocols can take up to 5 months to complete, we encourage you to prepare now. Compliance requirements include SCU Vaccination requirements in accordance with state Health policies: NSW Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases; and QLD Health Vaccination Requirements. SCU has incorporated a combined NSW and QLD vaccination procedure as students may need to attend laboratory classes in both states. Full details of vaccination compliance requirements for this unit are available at https://www.scu.edu.au/school-of-health-and-human-sciences/course-options/professional-experience/

Unit description

Orientates the student to contemporary nursing practice in Australia. Students will practice in a simulated environment on a range of skills based on the latest evidence and competency standards. Following this students will undertake workplace clinical experience and demonstrate their ability to transfer skills in their new practice environment so as to provide safe patient care.

Unit content

National Safety and Quality Standards in relation to Nursing:

  • documentation and communication, recognition of and response to the deteriorating health of the patient
  • use of medicines: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; medication management and drug calculation
  • prevention of risk and promotion of safety
  • clinical monitoring and management
  • principles of infection control, standard precautions, nosocomial infections, workplace health and safety, appropriate handling and disposal of wastes and sharps
  • essentials of care
  • evidence based practice.

Simulated clinical experience in Nursing:

  • medication administration
  • administration of blood transfusion
  • wound management
  • personal hygiene/activities of daily living
  • infection control
  • physical assessment
  • mental health assessment
  • observation and documentation
  • patient admission and assessment
  • pre and post-operative care
  • oxygen therapy
  • management of critical incidences
  • management of emergency situations
  • report writing and nursing handover
  • time management
  • communications
  • cultural safety.

Workplace clinical experience in Nursing:

  • orientation to clinical facility
  • role of the registered nurse and the multi-disciplinary team
  • assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care and clinical decision making
  • leadership and management
  • professional competency and scope of practice.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 1,  2,  3 Session 1,  2,  3

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 conduct a comprehensive and systematic nursing assessment
2 generate a nursing care plan in consultation with the patient/client, their significant others and the multidisciplinary health care team
3 deliver comprehensive, safe and effective evidence-based nursing care to achieve identified health outcomes working as an individual and as part of the multidisciplinary health care team
4 evaluate and critically analyse clinical situations and respond using a decision-making framework
5 assess and critique safe management, administration and the quality use of medicines.

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

  1. conduct a comprehensive and systematic nursing assessment
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    • GA3:
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    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  2. generate a nursing care plan in consultation with the patient/client, their significant others and the multidisciplinary health care team
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    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  3. deliver comprehensive, safe and effective evidence-based nursing care to achieve identified health outcomes working as an individual and as part of the multidisciplinary health care team
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  4. evaluate and critically analyse clinical situations and respond using a decision-making framework
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    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  5. assess and critique safe management, administration and the quality use of medicines.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:

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