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Unit of Study NURS5008 - Transformative Clinical Practices (2022)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains professional experience learning/ laboratory activities that require students to meet mandatory compliance requirements prior to attending. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the Professional Experience Learning and/or stipulated Laboratory Activity which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/healthplacements Please note Full Covid-19 vaccination is a mandatory requirement associated with the placement element of this unit of study. This requirement has been stipulated by the placement providers. It is strongly recommended that only students who meet this requirement enrol in this unit.

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
Dual Term1
Term5
Dual Term1
Term5

Learning outcomes

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:

conduct a comprehensive and systematic nursing assessment

generate a nursing care plan in consultation with the patient/client, their significant others and the multidisciplinary health care team

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

evaluate and critically analyse clinical situations and respond using a decision-making framework

assess and critique safe management, administration and the quality use of medicines.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Bloomfield, J, Pegram, A, Wilson, R, & Pearson, A et al., 2017, Clinical Nursing Skills: An Australian Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 978-1-316-62021-2.

Prescribed Texts
  • Bloomfield, J, Pegram, A, Wilson, R, & Pearson, A et al., 2017, Clinical Nursing Skills: An Australian Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 978-1-316-62021-2.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.