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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This is your final unit in the Bachelor of Nursing which must commence and be completed in the final six months of your course. 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) and apply the Patient Safety Competency Framework (PSCF) (Levett-Jones et al., 2017). You will be expected to identify risks 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 (NMBA, 2020). You are required to participate in a compulsory four (4) day residential school prior to attending professional experience placement for this unit. This unit includes a 240-hour block professional experience placement to consolidate your knowledge, skills, and experiences prior to being deemed eligible for registration as a nurse (Division 1) with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). 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 of relocating 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
Co-requisites: NURS13144 Preparation for Practice as a Registered Nurse OR NURS13135 The Professional Nurse Pre-requisites: 120 credit points within the CL91 Bachelor of Nursing course NURS13142 Professional Experience Placement 4 and NURS13141 Acute Alterations in Health in Complex Care Environments OR NURS12158 Clinical Nursing Practice 3 NURS13139 Building Professional Resilience in Nursing and NURS13140 Law and Ethical Considerations in the Profession of Nursing OR NURS13134 Community Nursing Perspectives NURS12163 Chronic Health and Community Care and NURS12164 Professional Experience Placement 3 OR NURS13133 Clinical Nursing Practice 4 NURS12162 Mental Health Nursing with Professional Experience Placement OR NURS12157 Concepts of Mental Health Nursing BIOH12011 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 1 and BIOH12012 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 2 OR BIOH11006 Advanced Anatomy and Physiology, NURS12154 Pharmacology for Nursing Practice and BIOH12008 Human Pathophysiology NURS12160 Alterations in Health OR NURS12155 Medical-Surgical Nursing NURS12165 Evidence to Inform Nursing Practice OR NURS11158 Evidence Informed Nursing Practice This unit must be completed in the final term of CL91 Bachelor of 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 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).
Information for Class and Assessment Overview has not been released yet.
This information will be available on Monday 19 May 2025All 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 Student feedback
I found refreshing the physical assessments excellent because I had not done a lot of these since first year.
Continue to refresh student learning on systematic assessments as previous industry feedback has informed us that student knowledge on basic assessments was limited.
Feedback from Student feedback
More online ZOOM sessions to provide additional support. Maybe every 2 or 4 weeks.
Include either planned ZOOM sessions or ad-hoc ZOOM sessions to provide a platform for the students to discuss concerns or ask questions.
Feedback from Unit coordinators
Include information to consolidate information regarding the first year of practice.
Students have expressed disappointment that no information was provided regarding their first year of practice. Historically this information was discussed at residential school allowing clarification of expectations. This would allow the consolidation of information provided by the sister unit that concurrently runs with this unit.
Feedback from CQU staff running residential schools.
More simulated scenarios are required to facilitate student's critical thinking/clinical reasoning.
Include simulated scenarios involving systematic physical assessments to facilitate critical thinking. Recommendation is for the scenarios to provide opportunities for students to identify normal versus abnormal findings, and the required nursing interventions.
Feedback from Residential school feedback
We really liked being assessed together. It allowed us to communicate our actions and work as a team.
Overall, the student feedback was positive regarding the clinical assessment scenario. They however did not like playing the patient as they find it difficult to respond to a fellow student. They did like working as part of a team and communicating the necessary nursing interventions and sharing the actions. We will continue to offer these sessions based on the recommended feedback.
Feedback from Unit coordinators
It is recommended to include a hospital based simulation with a variety of patient presentations with simulated patients (not students). AM and PM shifts could be designed play throughout the residential school or for one day.
The inclusion of this simulation would allow consolidation of all skills the students have learned throughout their degree. It would also allow them to refresh their knowledge of necessary assessments and interventions along with the applicable paperwork to cover a patient from admission to discharge. This would be removing the usual task focussed approach a student applies to the assessment item. It would allow the assessor to gain a true understanding of the student's theoretical and practical knowledge.