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.

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.