Overview
In this unit, you will have the opportunity to practice nursing care in the community or rehabilitative 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 80 hour block professional experience placement in a community or rehabilitative environment. For students, who have completed NURS12157, Concepts of Mental Health Nursing but have not completed, NURS12158, Clinical Nursing Practice 3, you will be undertaking an extra 80 hour professional experience placement block. 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
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: NURS12161 Professional Experience Placement 2 or NURS12156 Clinical Practice 2BIOH12011 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 1 or BIOH11006 Advanced Anatomy and Physiology and NURS12154 Pharmacology of Nursing PracticeCo-requisiteNURS12163 Chronic Health and Community
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 - 2025
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 pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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 SUTE Unit Comments
"Having all of the unit content at the beginning of term has been helpful in managing the rest of the term with placement, working and the other 3 units."
Continue using pre-brief as the content repository before on-campus learning sessions and clinical practicum.
Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments
"Too much learning content before early res school."
Review pre-brief learning content to condense it into smaller, user-friendly packages.
Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments
"As there were only 10 practice questions provided, it would be helpful to have more as I felt the questions were more complicated than those on the quiz."
The SNM&SS is currently developing school support for medication calculations through a Maths Moodle site.
Feedback from SUTE Unit Comments
"I would appreciate if the unit coordinator would have approached the first time placement students and assisted them with the expectations of completing the ANSAT."
Develop an information package and hold an information session for students undertaking a clinical placement unit for the first time within CQU Bachelor of Nursing program.
- Apply the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered Nurse Standards for Practice in the physical and psychosocial assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of people living with chronic health conditions or those requiring care residing in the community
- Recognise and respond appropriately to the deteriorating patient
- Identify factors associated with the wellbeing and experience of people living with chronic health conditions residing in the community
- Explain the nursing role as part of the interdisciplinary team and the requirements to provide holistic care
- Develop person-centred, evidence-based plans of care for a person experiencing an alteration in health identified in the National Health Priority Areas (NHPA)
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of safe supply and administration of non-parenteral and parenteral medication.
Content in this unit incorporates a number of professional nursing requirements
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Decision-Making Framework (DMF) - Nursing
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Registered Nurse Standards for Practice
Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice
Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships
Maintains the capability for practice
Comprehensively conducts assessments
Develops a plan for nursing practice
Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Nursing Code of Conduct
Legal compliance
Person-centred practice
Cultural practice and respectful relationships
Professional behaviour
Research in health
Health and wellbeing
International Council of Nursing Code of Ethics for Nursing
Nurses and People
Nurses and Practice
Nurses and the Profession
Nurses and co-workers
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
Clinical governance
Partnering with consumers
Preventing and Controlling healthcare-associated infection
Medication safety
Comprehensive care
Communicating for safety
Recognising and responding to acute deterioration
Patient Safety Competency Framework
Person-centred care
Therapeutic communication
Cultural competence
Teamwork and collaborative practice
Clinical reasoning
Evidence-based practice
Preventing, minimising and responding to adverse events
Infection prevention and control
Medication safety
Aged Care Quality Standards
Consumer dignity and choice
Ongoing assessment and planning with consumers
Personal care and clinical care
Services and supports for daily living
Organisation’s service environment
Feedback and complaints
Human resources
Organisation governance
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - In-class Test(s) - 0% | ||||||
| 2 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 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 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||||
| 11 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Textbooks
Skills in Clinical Nursing
- Edition: 2nd (2020)
- Authors: Bermer, Snyder, Levett-Jones, Burton, Harvey
- Pearson Education Australia
- Melbourne Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
- ISBN: 9781488620690
Additional Textbook Information
IT Resources
You will need access to the following IT resources:
Computer
CQUniversity Student Email
Internet
Unit Website (Moodle)
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microsoft Teams
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.bolton@cqu.edu.au
t.simes@cqu.edu.au
j.birt@cqu.edu.au
p.heidke@cqu.edu.au
c.kurup@cqu.edu.au
t.channell@cqu.edu.au
m.evans3@cqu.edu.au
Week 1
Begin Date: 14 Jul 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Recorded presentations:
Welcome and unit introduction
Activity:
Check the Sonia platform for the dates and venues of on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 2
Begin Date: 21 Jul 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 3
Begin Date: 28 Jul 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 4
Begin Date: 04 Aug 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 5
Begin Date: 11 Aug 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Vacation Week
Begin Date: 18 Aug 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 6
Begin Date: 25 Aug 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 7
Begin Date: 01 Sep 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 8
Begin Date: 08 Sep 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 9
Begin Date: 15 Sep 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 10
Begin Date: 22 Sep 2025Module/Topic
Preparation for and/or attendance at on-campus clinical learning activities.
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Complete all pre-brief learning activities before you attend your assigned 24-hour on-campus learning sessions.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled on-campus learning sessions and professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 1 to be completed during your assigned on-campus learning sessions.
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 11
Begin Date: 29 Sep 2025Module/Topic
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Activity:
Attend scheduled professional experience placements.
Complete pre-placement activities as required by your placement facility.
Assessment:
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Week 12
Begin Date: 06 Oct 2025Module/Topic
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment:
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 13 Oct 2025Module/Topic
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment:
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
Exam Week
Begin Date: 20 Oct 2025Module/Topic
Professional experience placement.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment:
Assessment 2 to be completed during your professional experience placement.
Announcements and Discussion Forums:
Check for posts and updates.
As this unit is offered face-to-face, students are asked to prepare their own individual study plan to undertake self-led and self-directed study throughout the term. A key to your success is a strategic self-directed approach to learning and regular contact with your Unit Coordinator/s. Please check the Announcements and Discussion forums at least twice a week – there will be regular announcements about assessments and unit resources throughout the term and reviewing this information is essential to unit knowledge and your success. CQUniversity communicates with students through CQUniversity email. We recommend that you access your CQUniversity email at least twice a week so that you do not miss vital information about your studies.
1 In-class Test(s)
The quiz will assess your ability to correctly complete medication calculations and your knowledge of medication safety. The quiz consists of 20 questions and will be completed during your residential school. The questions are of various types, including multiple choice, type in answer and drag and drop. You have a maximum of one hour to complete the quiz. You must complete the quiz in one sitting, under the direct supervision of a lecturer. Once you have started the quiz, you cannot log out. Please do not refresh or reload your screen; this may close the quiz and record your result. The quiz will automatically close at the end of one hour and will submit your result.
You have a maximum of three attempts to complete the quiz. Each attempt will be held on a different day of residential school. If you require an additional attempt, you must undertake remediation by completing a learning package and practice quiz prior to subsequent attempts. These learning packages are available on the Maths Central platform on Nursing Central. It is your responsibility to complete this between each attempt.
Level of GenAI use allowed:
Level 1: You must not use AI at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.
Day 1 of on-campus learning sessions (re-attempts may be offered on day 2 and/or day 3 of on- campus learning sessions). Extensions: Not available as per policy. The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment
Student will receive mark on completion of online Quiz
Pass/Fail - you must achieve 100% in this quiz to pass. You have 3 attempts to achieve 100%.
- Apply the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered Nurse Standards for Practice in the physical and psychosocial assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of people living with chronic health conditions or those requiring care residing in the community
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of safe supply and administration of non-parenteral and parenteral medication.
2 Professional Practice Placement
Your Professional Experience Placement (PEP) is assessed via the Australian Nurse Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT). The ANSAT provides a platform for you and your assessor to record, reflect on and discuss your clinical learning and your clinical practice in line with the Registered nurse standards for practice.
Your assessment is undertaken with a registered nurse from your placement. All documentation is contained in SONIA. Therefore, there are a number of important steps you need to undertake to ensure that your assessment is completed.
Instructions
1. Prior to your PEP: Locate the Facilitator/preceptor notification form on SONIA.
2. Day 1: Complete the facilitator/preceptor notification form and submit on SONIA.
3. During your PEP, maintain an accurate Record of Attendance timesheet. Each shift should be co-signed by an RN, preceptor or clinical facilitator.
4. Midway through your PEP: Complete a Formative ANSAT.
This requires the following steps:
a. Complete the Student formative self-assessment ANSAT found in SONIA. Submit this to your assessor.
b. After your assessor has completed their feedback in the Formative ANSAT in SONIA, discuss this feedback with your assessor.
c. Your Formative ANSAT will be reviewed by your Unit Coordinator and sign it.
If you score below 3 in any of the criteria, a learning support plan may be implemented. This support plan will provide clear performance expectations and goals to work towards.
d. Review the Unit Coordinator’s comments. Complete the student declaration and signature section at the end of your Formative ANSAT. You will receive an email notification when this is available. (Completing these steps will trigger the release of the summative ANSAT.)
5. Towards the completion of your PEP: Complete a Summative Assessment:
This requires the following steps:
a. Complete the Student summative self-assessment in SONIA. Submit this to your assessor.
b. After your assessor has completed their feedback in the Summative ANSAT in SONIA, discuss this feedback with your assessor.
c. You will be notified by email to complete the student declaration and signature section on your Summative ANSAT.
d. You will need to attain a score of 3 or higher for each ANSAT criterion on the summative ANSAT assessment to pass this assessment.
e. You Summative ANSAT will be reviewed by your Unit Coordinator and check the hours recorded on your Record of Attendance.
6. If you have used an online timesheet in SONIA, please print this when you have completed your placement. Your finalised Record of Attendance must be uploaded into SONIA within 3 days of completing your placement. Your grade cannot be finalised until you have uploaded your Record of Attendance.
Extensions for assessment 2 are not available as per policy and that the 72-hour grace period does not apply to assessment 2.
Three days after the completion of your placement- - Extensions for assessment 2 are not available as per policy and that the 72-hour grace period does not apply to assessment 2.
Seven days after submission date
• Students are assessed against the Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT). A copy of this is available to you through SONIA.
• Any unsatisfactory performance that jeopardises people's safety in your care or that does not adhere to the NMBA Registered nurse standards for practice, Code of professional conduct, Code of ethics, A nurse's guide to professional boundaries, and Social media policy criteria, may result in your placement being cancelled.
Requirements
• As a nursing student representing CQUniversity, you are required to comply with CQU student nurse uniform requirements and the CQU student Charter during your professional experience placement.
• Please refer to Work-integrated Learning-Student Placement Policy and Procedure that can be found on the WIL (Work Integrated Learning) Moodle site.
- Apply the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered Nurse Standards for Practice in the physical and psychosocial assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of people living with chronic health conditions or those requiring care residing in the community
- Recognise and respond appropriately to the deteriorating patient
- Identify factors associated with the wellbeing and experience of people living with chronic health conditions residing in the community
- Explain the nursing role as part of the interdisciplinary team and the requirements to provide holistic care
- Develop person-centred, evidence-based plans of care for a person experiencing an alteration in health identified in the National Health Priority Areas (NHPA)
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of safe supply and administration of non-parenteral and parenteral medication.
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?
