Overview
This unit will extend your knowledge of normal homeostatic mechanisms and the pathophysiological basis of health disorders and injuries relevant to your chosen clinical specialisation using a person centred approach. Your clinical decision making and problem solving skills in managing episodes of care will be enhanced through examining biological, physiological processes and psychosocial concepts.You will also explore the legal and ethical issues relevant to clinical practice within your specialisation area.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Students must be enrolled in CL22 Master of Clinical Nursing to undertake 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 1 - 2022
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 Postgraduate 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.
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- 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
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- Analyse and apply contemporary national and international initiatives to patient management
- Analyse psychosocial and ethical and legal issues in clinical decision making
- Evaluate therapeutic and rehabilitative approaches that may be applied to individuals/groups within area of clinical specialisation
- Evaluate physiological and psychosocial interventions, and therapies that maintain and/or restore homoeostasis
- Reflect critically on practice to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 0% | |||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 0% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 - Knowledge | |||||
| 2 - Communication | |||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | |||||
| 4 - Research | |||||
| 5 - Self-management | |||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | |||||
| 7 - Leadership | |||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 0% | ||||||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 0% | ||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- CQ U library search engines for research articles
- CQUniversity library literature search tools
- Online access to Austroads manuals and Australian Standards (through CQU Library)
- Portfolium
- Endnote bibliographic software. This is recommended for formatting references.
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.
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Module/Topic
Introduction
Chapter
Feo, R., Kitson, A., & Conroy, T. (2018). How fundamental aspects of nursing care are defined in the literature: A scoping review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(11-12), 2189-2229.
Events and Submissions/Topic
ZOOM: Tuesday 8th March 1900 hours
Welcome, introduction to unit and Moodle site: Introduce yourselves.
Module/Topic
1, Part 2: Legal, Professional and Ethical guidelines for advanced practice
Chapter
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. (2018). Code of conduct for nurses. https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Statements/FAQ/Fact-sheet-Code-of-conduct-for-nurses-and-Code-of-conduct-for-midwives.aspx
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2018). Registered nurse standards for practice. https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Statements/Professional-standards/registered-nurse-standards-for-practice.aspx
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment 2 Artefact 1: Submit your Curriculum Vitae. Due date: 5pm (AEST) Friday 18th March 2022
Module/Topic
2, Part 1: Epidemiology
Chapter
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020). Australia’s Health 2020. https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/be95235d-fd4d-4824-9ade-34b7491dd66f/aihw-aus-231.pdf.aspx?inline=true
Events and Submissions/Topic
ZOOM: Tuesday 22nd March1900hrs
Assessment 2 Artefact 2: Submit your Specialty Standards of Practice. Due date: 5pm (AEST) Friday 25th March 2022
Module/Topic
Chapter
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020). Australia’s health 2020. https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/be95235d-fd4d-4824-9ade-34b7491dd66f/aihw-aus-231.pdf.aspx?inline=true
Events and Submissions/Topic
Discussion Forum
Reflective Practice Assignment Due: Week 4 Wednesday (30 Mar 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
3, Part 1: Comprehensive patient assessment
Chapter
Chapter 3 in
Estes, M. E. Z., Calleja, P., Theobald, K., & Harvey, T. (2020). Health assessment & physical examination (3rd ed.). Cengage Learning Australia.Events and Submissions/Topic
ZOOM: Tuesday 5th April 1900hrs
Module/Topic
Nil
Chapter
Nil
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Module/Topic
3, Part 2: Advanced clinical decision making related to maintaining patient safety
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Discussion Forum
Module/Topic
4, Part 1: Respiratory assessment, diagnostic and screening tests
Chapter
Chapter 13 in:
Estes, M. E. Z., Calleja, P., Theobald, K., & Harvey, T. (2020). Health assessment & physical examination (3rd ed.). Cengage Learning Australia
Sarkar, M., Madabhavi, I., Niranjan, N., & Dogra, M. (2015). Auscultation of the respiratory system. Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 10(3), 158–168. https://doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.160831
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom: Tuesday 26th April 1900 hours
Module/Topic
4, Part 2: Advanced clinical reasoning related to respiratory status
Chapter
Rolfe, S., & Paul, F. (2018). Oxygen therapy in adult patients. Part 1: Understanding the relevant physiology and pathophysiology. British Journal of Nursing, 27(14), 798–804. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2018.27.14.798
Rolfe, S., & Paul, F. (2018). Oxygen therapy in adult patients. Part 2: Promoting safe and effective practice in patients' care and management. British Journal of Nursing, 27(17), 988–995. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2018.27.17.988
Events and Submissions/Topic
Discussion Forum
Module/Topic
5, Part 1: Assessing for nutritional deficiencies and fluid status
Chapter
Chapter 15 in
Estes, M. E. Z., Calleja, P., Theobald, K., & Harvey, T. (2020). Health assessment & physical examination (3rd ed.). Cengage Learning Australia
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom: Tuesday 10th May 1900 hours
Module/Topic
5, Part 2: Advanced clinical reasoning related to nutrition and fluid intake
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Discussion Forum
Module/Topic
The whole patient – bringing everything together
Chapter
Nil
Events and Submissions/Topic
Ensure that artefacts 1, 2, 3 are all submitted online by your Assessment 2 due date:
Clinical Portfolio Due: Week 11 Wednesday (25 May 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
The whole patient – bringing everything together
Chapter
Nil
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Nil
Chapter
Nil
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Nil
Chapter
Nil
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Reflective Practice Assignment
Type: Written assessment
Due date: 5 pm (AEST) Wednesday 30th March 2022 (Week 4)
Weighting: Pass/Fail
Length: 2000 words +/- 10%
Aim:
The aim of this assessment is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and skills in providing ethical and legal nursing care in your area of specialty.
Instructions
Use the Gibbs’ Reflective Model (1988) to reflect on the ethical, legal, and nursing practice implications brought about by recent changes to infection control policies associated with COVID, in your area of clinical specialty. Your reflection needs to highlight the changes to infection control policies and how these impact your patients/clients and your delivery of nursing care.
Gibbs’ steps to reflective practice are:
- Description – What happened (infection control change and impact)?
- Feelings – What are you thinking or feeling about this?
- Evaluation – What is good and what is bad about the change?
- Analysis - What have you learnt from this experience?
- Conclusion – What could you have done differently?
- Action – If you faced this situation again, how would you act differently (Gibbs, 1988)
Before you begin writing, follow these guidelines to help you prepare the reflection:
Step 1. Review the situation/incident thoroughly
- Take notes, highlight relevant facts, and review relevant literature inclusive of - change in policy, ethical and legal implications of this change, change in nursing care process, impact on client/patient
Step 2. Focus your analysis
- Identify the area/specialty in which you work – please do not identify institutions i.e., specific hospitals.
- Identify the change in infection control policy associated with COVID-19.
- Why did this change occur?
- What were the legal and ethical considerations related to care?
- How did the change in infection control impact the patient?
- How did the change in infection control impact the delivery of your nursing care?
- Who is responsible for ensuring that you are properly resourced to accommodate the change and why do you need to know this person?
- Did the subsequent care delivered meet the standards of best practice?
Step 3. Uncover possible improvements to nursing practice
- Review unit readings, discussions, outside research, your experience.
Step 4. Select the best solution
- Consider strong supporting evidence, pros, and cons: was this care provided at a gold stand level?
- What would you do in the future faced with this change in infection control?
Literature and references:
In this assessment use at least 12 contemporary references (<10 years) to support your discussion. You may also use seminal scholarly literature where relevant. Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks and credible websites. When sourcing information, consider the five elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies: for example, the Australian College of Nursing.
Requirements:
1. Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Calibri or Times New Roman, with 1.5 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).
2. Include page numbers on each page in a footer
3. Include an introduction and conclusion
4. Write predominantly in the third-person perspective and use first person where appropriate.
5. Use formal academic language.
6. Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.
7. References must be used to support the reflection on the ethical and legal implications as well as the identified decisions and actions taken.
8. The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. The word count excludes the reference list but includes in-text references and direct quotations.
Resources:
9. Decision-making framework (DMF) (NMBA, 2020)
10. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) registered nurse standards for practice (2016).
11. National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017)
12. Patient Safety Competency Framework for Nursing Students (PSCF) (Levett-Jones et al., 2017)
13. You can use unit provided materials and other credible sources (e.g. journal articles, books) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.
14. We recommend that you access your discipline specific Nursing Resource Guide
15. You may like to manage your citations and reference list. Information on how to use academic referencing software (EndNote) is available at the CQUniversity Library website should you wish to learn how to use it.
16. For information on academic writing and referencing please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language.
17. Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.
Submission:
Submit your assessment via the unit Moodle site in Microsoft Word format only.
Marking Criteria:
Refer to the marking rubric below for more detail on how marks will be assigned. To achieve a passing grade for this unit you are required to pass this assessment item. If you do not pass this assessment item, you may be offered an opportunity to re-attempt. A re-attempt may be offered if you have demonstrated a reasonable initial attempt to complete all components of the task. If you are required to re-attempt, you can only achieve a maximum of 50% of the available marks for this assessment.
Learning Outcomes assessed:
2. Analyse psychosocial and ethical and legal issues in clinical decision making
5. Reflect critically on practice to identify strengths and areas for improvement
Week 4 Wednesday (30 Mar 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Submit via TURNITIN on Unit Moodle site
Week 6 Wednesday (20 Apr 2022)
Online
NURS20175 Assessment 1 Rubric
- To achieve a pass in this assessment students must be successful in half of major criteria. To be successful in each of the major criteria students must be successful in half of minor criteria e.g. 2/4; 3/6.
- Students may have a second attempt if unsuccessful in the first attempt.
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- Analyse psychosocial and ethical and legal issues in clinical decision making
- Reflect critically on practice to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
- Knowledge
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Portfolio
Type: Written assessment
Due date: 5 pm (AEST) Wednesday 25th May 2022 (Week 11) for all three artefacts
Weighting: Pass/Fail
Length: 2500 words +/- 10%
Aim
The aim of this assessment is to add three artefacts, explained below, to your professional portfolio to demonstrate your knowledge, experience, skills, abilities and professional development in your specialty.
Artefact one - Curriculum Vitae (CV) – the CV provides a summary of your career covering your qualifications and experience. The CV provides insight into your current professional associations and capabilities. You may have already added your CV to your e-portfolio if you previously completed NURS20171 or NURS20172. If this is the case, please update and submit online again.
Artefact two – Nursing Specialty Standards document – the standards document, demonstrates the expected standard of nursing care in your specialty. You may have already added your specialty standards to your e-portfolio if you previously completed NURS20171 or NURS20172. If this is the case, please review to ensure you have the latest version and submit online again.
Artefact three – Written Assessment – the academic writing activity demonstrates your knowledge of current practice/s in your specialty by presenting a patient that you have nursed in your area of specialty. You will outline and justify the nursing care delivered for this person and their subsequent health outcomes. Your discussion will include nursing interventions that would have improved the patient’s outcomes
Instructions
You will develop or review and update the following three artefacts and add them to your portfolio.
Step 1: Access your Specialty Standards of Practice and e-Portfolio by the end of Week 1.
Step 2: Update and submit Artefact 1, your Curriculum Vitae, to your e-Portfolio by 5pm (AEST) Friday 18th March 2022 (Week 2)
Step 3: Review and submit your Specialty Standards of Practice Artefact 2 by 5pm (AEST) Friday 25th March 2022 (Week 3)
Step 4: Complete your writing assignment and submit online by 5pm (AEST) Wednesday 25th May 2022 (Week 11)
Step 4.1: Present the person you have selected from your specialty person outlining how you will demonstrate your proficiency in providing the appropriate nursing care for this person, to maintain or return the person to homeostasis.
Step 4.2: Research the scholarly literature on the nursing care, including assessment, of the person you have selected to present.
Step 4.3: Using information gained from your research of the scholarly literature, discuss the issues identified in the description of your patient one by one
Step 4.4: Summarise to conclude your discussion and give recommendations to improve nursing care providing reasons for your recommendations.
Step 5: Once marking has been completed and any corrections made, add the document to your e-Portfolio before commencement of NURS20176 Advanced Practice for Registered Nurses 2.
Literature and references
In this assessment, use at least 12 contemporary references (<10 years) in artefact three to support your discussion. You may also use seminal scholarly literature where relevant. Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks and credible websites. When sourcing information, consider the 5 elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies: for example, the Australian College of Nursing.
Requirements
- Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Times New Roman or Arial, with 1.5 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).
- Include page numbers on each page in a footer
- Write predominantly in the third-person perspective and use first person where appropriate.
- Use formal academic language.
- Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.
- The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. The word count excludes the reference list but includes in-text references and direct quotations.
Resources
- You can use unit provided materials and other credible sources (e.g. journal articles, books) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.
- We recommend that you access your discipline specific Nursing Resource Guide
- You may like to manage your citations and reference list. Information on how to use academic referencing software (EndNote) is available at the CQUniversity Library website should you wish to learn how to use it.
- For information on academic writing and referencing please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language.
- Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.
Submission
Submit your assessment via the unit Moodle site in Microsoft Word format only.
Marking Criteria
Refer to the marking rubric below for more detail on how marks will be assigned. To achieve a passing grade for this unit you are required to pass this assessment item. If you do not pass this assessment item, you may be offered an opportunity to re-attempt. A re-attempt may be offered if you have demonstrated a reasonable initial attempt to complete all components of the task. If you are required to re-attempt, you can only achieve a maximum of 50% of the available marks for this assessment.
Learning Outcomes Assessed
1. Analyse and apply contemporary national and international initiatives to patient management
3. Evaluate therapeutic and rehabilitative approaches that may be applied to individuals/groups within area of clinical specialisation
4. Evaluate physiological and psychosocial interventions, and therapies that maintain and/or restore homeostasis
Week 11 Wednesday (25 May 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Submit via TURNITIN on the course Unit Site
Review/Exam Week Wednesday (8 June 2022)
Online
NURS20175 Assessment 2 Marking Criteria
To achieve a pass in this assessment students must be successful in half of major criteria. To be successful in each of the major criteria students must be successful in half of minor criteria e.g. 2/4; 3/6. Students may have a second attempt if unsuccessful in the first attempt.
| PASS | FAIL |
| Artefact 1: Professional Portfolio (e-Portfolio) contains a current Curriculum Vitae due Week 2 - 5pm (AEST) Friday 18th March 2022 | Artefact 1: Professional Portfolio (e-Portfolio) does not contain a current Curriculum Vitae due Week 2 5pm (AEST) Friday 18th March 2022 |
Artefact 2 - Specialty Standards artefact due Week 3 - 5pm (AEST) Friday 25th March 2022
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Artefact 2- Specialty Standards artefact due Week 3 - 5pm (AEST) Friday 25th March 2022
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Artefact 3- Written Assessment due Week 11 - 5pm (AEST) Wednesday 25th May 2022 Presentation & Structure
Referencing
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Artefact 3 - Written Assessment due Week 11 - 5pm (AEST) Wednesday 25th May 2022 Presentation & Structure
Referencing
Content
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- Analyse and apply contemporary national and international initiatives to patient management
- Evaluate therapeutic and rehabilitative approaches that may be applied to individuals/groups within area of clinical specialisation
- Evaluate physiological and psychosocial interventions, and therapies that maintain and/or restore homoeostasis
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
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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.
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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?
