Overview
This unit will expose you to the primary concepts surrounding the historical influence and evolving roles of contemporary nursing in Australia; including elements of professional governance, legal and ethical implications as well as communication principles.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Evaluations
Zoom recordings of tutorials to be available to students
Zoom recordings will be made available to students after tutorials.
- Discuss historical and contemporary factors that have influenced the image, status and practice of nursing.
- Examine the principles of communication theory and professional communication in various mediums to provide accurate and concise information.
- Associate the role of professional governing bodies in relation to professional nursing practice, patient safety and governance.
- Apply basic principles of numeracy and literacy as they relate to medication calculations and professional writing.
- Explore the culture and diversity of nursing and respond appropriately to the opinions of others.
The Learning outcomes are linked to the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) Standards for registered nurses and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) registered nurse standards for practice.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
A guide to Australian healthcare acronyms and abbreviations (AHAA) : to assist with interpreting clinical handover
(2014)
Authors: Irvine, JL
JLI Nurse Education Consultancy
North Fitzroy North Fitzroy , ACT , Australia
Binding: Paperback
Student nurse maths and medications survival guide
Edition: 1st edn (2009)
Authors: Reid-Searl, K, Dwyer, T, Moxham, L, Reid-Spears, J & Richards, A
Pearson UK
Harlow Harlow , Essex , UK
ISBN: 9780733986666
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.monson@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction: An overview of the unit, discussion of assessments and an introduction to academic writing A review of Plagiarism and how to avoid it in academic writing
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Prepare for your studies by reading the unit profile and browsing through the Moodle site. Get to know each other by posting on the Moodle forum. Work through the weekly activities and post your learning tasks to the forum.Review Assessment tasks and plan accordingly.
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Professional nursing governing bodies: The role of professional nursing governing bodies including APRHA, NMBA and ANMAC
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Literacy and referencing: Academic writing, using the library to find relavent information for your assessments and how to use the APA referencing system
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Literacy: Guide for academic writing skills including how to write essays
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Historical and contemporary factors that have influenced the nursing profession: The image, staus and practice of nursing
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The nursing student: Roles and responsiblities of the nursing student, including accountability, clinical placements and scope of practice
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Culture and diversity: Nursing people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Culture of nursing, horizontal violence and nurse resilience
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Principles of communication: Communication theory, professional communication and reflective practice
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Clinical communication: Nursing documentation, clinical handover, use of apps, social media, legal aspects of documentation
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Numeracy: Basic principles of numeracy and how they relate to medication calculation
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Revision: Bringing it all together
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Complete the unit review: Big red button
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1 Written Assessment
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) has developed several guiding documents to guide Australian Registered Nurses in their practice, which also apply to your practice as nursing students, particularly during your clinical placements.
These Documents include
· The Code of Ethics For Nurses in Australia (2008),
· The Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses in Australia(2006),
· The Registered nurse standards for practice (effective date 1 June 2016),
· The Nurses guide to professional boundaries (2010) and
· The Social Media Policy (2008).
This assessment requires you to discuss the following terms and how the definition of these terms will guide you in your clinical practice.
Define Accountability, Competence, Scope of practice and professionalism and how these terms will guide your clinical practice during your clinical placements and once graduated.You will need to use the existing literature to support your discussion and explain why you think how you do.
Week 6 Tuesday (22 Aug 2017) 4:00 pm AEST
22nd August 2017
Monday (11 Sept 2017)
Assessment criteria against rubric
Structure 15%
Approach and argument 70%
Referencing 15%
total mark out 100
- Discuss historical and contemporary factors that have influenced the image, status and practice of nursing.
- Examine the principles of communication theory and professional communication in various mediums to provide accurate and concise information.
- Associate the role of professional governing bodies in relation to professional nursing practice, patient safety and governance.
- Apply basic principles of numeracy and literacy as they relate to medication calculations and professional writing.
- Explore the culture and diversity of nursing and respond appropriately to the opinions of others.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
The Scenario:
Nurse Jackie is a first year student nurse on her first clinical placement in a nursing home in her small home town. Whilst on duty she forms a close attachment to an elderly female patient Mrs Isobel James. Mrs James is 97 years old and has several co-morbidities and spends much of her time in her bed.
Nurse Jackie takes a photo with Mrs James consent and later posts the photo on her personal facebook page. She later discusses the patient’s condition on facebook. The next day Mrs James gives Nurse Jackie a bottle of expensive perfume. Nurse Jackie accepts this gift and does not inform the nurse unit manager.
The next day Mrs James asks Nurse Jackie to bring her in a bottle of whisky which Nurse Jackie does. The following morning Mrs James is found unconscious and no-one can explain the patient’s clinical condition.
Review the scenario above and discuss;
The nurse’s actions with relevance to
AHPRA Social Media Policy (2008),
NMBA’s Code of professional conduct
Code of professional Boundaries.
Registered Nurse Standards for practice.
Code of Ethics.
Explain how adherence to the guiding documents may have safe guarded Nurse Jackie from allegations of misconduct.
Week 10 Tuesday (19 Sept 2017) 4:00 pm AEST
Monday (9 Oct 2017)
Assessment criteria against rubric
Structure 15%
Approach and Argument 70%
Referencing 15%
total out of 100 marks
- Discuss historical and contemporary factors that have influenced the image, status and practice of nursing.
- Examine the principles of communication theory and professional communication in various mediums to provide accurate and concise information.
- Associate the role of professional governing bodies in relation to professional nursing practice, patient safety and governance.
- Apply basic principles of numeracy and literacy as they relate to medication calculations and professional writing.
- Explore the culture and diversity of nursing and respond appropriately to the opinions of others.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
