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Unit Summary
Pre-requisites
NURS2002 - Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning AND NURS2005 - Mental Health Nursing OR NURS2001 - Nursing Practices AND NURS2007 - Primary Health Care and Nursing Practices OR NURS2001 - Nursing Practices AND NURS2009 - Health Maintenance and Restorative Nursing Care OR NURS2001 - Nursing Practices
Unit aim
Offers students, as emerging practitioners, the opportunity to build on their capabilities to enter the workforce as they learn how to support others in the workplace and to adapt to continuous change and the rise of new roles and responsibilities in nursing and the healthcare environments. Students develop a portfolio demonstrating their acquisition of knowledge and clinical experience as relevant to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered Nurse standards for practice and their commitment to lifelong learning.
Unit content
Professional portfolio
- Preparing the professional portfolio
- Regulatory requirements for continuing education for the Registered Nurse
- The NMBA standards — evidence of integrated knowledge and clinical experience
Preparation for practice
- Employment opportunities
- Requirements of employment applications
- The professional interview
Career planning
- Roles of the Registered Nurse in health care
- Achieving career goals
Mentoring, preceptoring and clinical supervision
- Adult learning theories used in clinical teaching
- Teaching strategies
- Roles and characteristics of effective mentors and preceptors
- Purpose of mentoring, preceptoring and clinical supervision
- The clinical supervision relationship
Transitions to practice
- Establishing your professional identity
- Coping with confrontation in the workplace
- Resilience
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | develop a professional portfolio to demonstrate personal reflection of clinical experiences and a critical evaluation of how the Registered Nurse Standards for practice have been achieved |
| 2 | critique and construct professional employment strategies |
| 3 | reflect on and refine personal strategies and identified support networks for the transition to graduate |
| 4 | integrate and apply knowledge, skills and understanding integral to mentorship, preceptorship and clinical supervision |
| 5 | critically explore career pathways and associated professional development strategies for life-long learning. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- develop a professional portfolio to demonstrate personal reflection of clinical experiences and a critical evaluation of how the Registered Nurse Standards for practice have been achieved
- critique and construct professional employment strategies
- reflect on and refine personal strategies and identified support networks for the transition to graduate
- integrate and apply knowledge, skills and understanding integral to mentorship, preceptorship and clinical supervision
- critically explore career pathways and associated professional development strategies for life-long learning.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.