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NURS12161 Professional Experience Placement 2
Professional Experience Placement 2
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General Information

Overview

In this unit, you will have the opportunity to practice nursing care in the medical-surgical environment. You will apply the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered nurse standards for practice (2016). You will continue to explore the importance of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017) to all nursing practice in Australia and use the Patient Safety Competency Framework (PSCF) (Levett-Jones et al., 2017) in your practice as a nursing student. You will be expected to identify risk and recognise and respond appropriately to the deteriorating patient in the simulated and clinical environment. You will work within your scope of practice using the decision-making framework (DMF) (NMBA, 2020). You are required to participate in a compulsory three (3) day residential school prior to attending professional experience placement for this unit. This unit includes a 120 hour block professional experience placement in a medical-surgical environment. You must meet specific mandatory health, safety and security requirements to be eligible to attend each professional experience placement. Professional experience placements may be limited in your community and you may be placed in other locations. Please be prepared financially and personally to cover the costs to relocate for placements. Due to the limited availability of placements, some block placements have start and/or end dates that fall outside standard term dates.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 2
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 7
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisites: BIOH11005 Introductory Anatomy and Physiology or BMSC11010 Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 NURS11170 Professional Experience Placement 1 or NURS11161 Clinical Nursing Practice 1 or admission to CM77 Co-requisite: NURS12160 Alterations in Health or NURS12155 Medical-Surgical Nursing

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 1 - 2025

Mixed Mode
Rockhampton

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).

Class and Assessment Overview

Information for Class and Assessment Overview has not been released yet.

This information will be available on Monday 13 January 2025
Previous Student Feedback

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 SUTE comments

Feedback

I liked the subject how there was a residential school and then placement/ANSAT and no other assessments to complete. This made it easy to focus on the placement and other subjects without the stress of having a written assessment as well.

Recommendation

Continue to focus on skills acquisition and practice in residential schools without overburdening with written assessments.

Feedback from SUTE comments

Feedback

Not to any fault of the educators at residential school as they were absolutely fabulous, but the amount of content crammed into such a short period of time was impossible to learn and for them to teach.

Recommendation

Content within the PEP 2 residential school will be revised. Clinical assessments on Day 3 are being removed to allow students more time to learn and practice.

Feedback from SUTE comments

Feedback

We need more advanced notice for residential school and placements. I feel there isn't enough time after we get the dates to be able to book accommodation (for those who aren't local) and time away from jobs.

Recommendation

This is being looked into to make it more student focussed.

Unit Learning Outcomes

Information for Unit Learning Outcomes has not been released yet.

This information will be available on Monday 13 January 2025
Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

Information for Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes has not been released yet.

This information will be available on Monday 13 January 2025
Textbooks and Resources

Information for Textbooks and Resources has not been released yet.

This information will be available on Monday 17 February 2025
Academic Integrity Statement

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This unit profile has not yet been finalised.