NURS11170 - Professional Experience Placement 1

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will have the opportunity to practice fundamental nursing care in the aged care 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 review the concept of scope of practice using the decision-making framework (DMF) (NMBA, 2020). You are required to participate in a compulsory three (3) day residential school or alternatively, an on-campus workshop prior to attending professional experience placement for this unit. This unit includes a 120 hour block professional experience placement in an aged care 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

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisites:

NURS11164 Effective Communication in the Health Care Environment or NURS11163 Recovery Approach to Mental Health

NURS11165 The Profession of Nursing or NURS11159 Introduction to Nursing

NURS11166 Health and Assessment in Nursing or NURS11160 Fundamentals of Clinical Nursing Practice.

Co-requisites:

BIOH11005 Introductory Anatomy and Physiology or BMSC11010 Human Anatomy and Physiology 1

NURS11169 Health Across Life Stages or NURS11157 Lifespan Approach to Health and Wellness for 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).

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Residential School Compulsory Residential School
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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 3 - 2024 Profile
Mixed Mode
Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Mixed Mode
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2025 Profile
Mixed Mode

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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. In-class Test(s) 0%
2. Professional Practice Placement 0%

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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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 97.37% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 15.45% response rate.

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.

Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
I am a hands on learned so the information provided in conjunction with the hands on application were great. I learnt so much from this unit.
Recommendation
Continue to review current practice and contemporary literature in aged care aligned with learning outcomes to enable students a successful professional experience placement.
Action Taken
Updated current literature to enable students to have a greater understanding of caring for older persons in aged care.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Brisbane campus teachers were amazing and lots of help. Only thing I was say would warn students about the parking arrangements at the Brisbane campus.
Recommendation
Continue to engage with and support students in their learning environments. Notify students of care parking options prior to residential school.
Action Taken
Continue to notify students in Brisbane regarding car parking options and other travel arrangements prior to the commencement of the residential school.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
The only feedback I have is that only having three days of practical work in the lab at uni is not enough over an entire semester. I understand as online students it is difficult for some to travel to campus however if there was an option for those that could travel to utilise the lab and practice those skills it would be very beneficial, and I would feel more confident going onto placement.
Recommendation
Continue to provide avenues for students to attend the lab to practice skills when suitable times are available. Include discussion around lab availability in residential school planner.
Action Taken
A new residential school curriculum has been implemented to allow students with more opportunities to learn and practice clinical skills. Continue to provide students options to attend campuses at suitable times to practice their skills.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
ANSAT outcomes need to be clear with better instructions. You can't shun students who receive a 5 on their ANSAT when it doesn't fit who you think they are. Especially when you have never met them. It also needs to say Student Comments are mandatory and how they should answer it.
Recommendation
Continue to provide an exemplar to support students learning at residential school and zoom session discussion on completing the ANSAT tool to ensure students fully understand the requirements when completing assessment.
Action Taken
An exemplar of the ANSAT has been provided to students on Moodle. The residential school has also been allocated to discuss the ANSAT tools. Furthermore, a Zoom session on professional clinical placement, which included ANSAT discussion was also delivered to students and will continue.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
In my opinion students need more days in Residential School to get more information and experience from tutors, and be prepared especially for hospital placement.
Recommendation
Residential school curricula will be reviewed and refined to ensure students are prepared for their respective clinical placements.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Overall the content provided was up to date and examples used in residential school were similar to real life experiences, helping improve our skills and knowledge surrounding the assessments/paperwork. Sometimes the content was hard to understand, possibly due to how it was worded or the resources we were given, however, it was easy enough to work around it.
Recommendation
Resources and content delivered in residential school curricula will be reviewed and refined as appropriate and will ensure the currency of knowledge and skills is relevant to first-year students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
The Residential school provided by the unit was poorly executed. I was not prepared properly for placement, there was lots and lots of theory and little hands on learning. My educators did very well in the math exam aspect. I feel as though 6 days of residential in our first year and than expecting us to be competent in a hospital setting is ridiculous.
Recommendation
We will review and refine residential school curricula to ensure more learning opportunities are provided in the clinical practice space for residential schools.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. 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 in aged care, including those with cognitive impairment in the simulated and clinical environment
  2. Identify potential risks in the aged care environment and determine strategies to minimise the risk
  3. Recognise and respond appropriately to the deteriorating patient in the aged care context
  4. Develop strategies for self-care when managing decline in cognition in the older person with delirium and/or dementia.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge and application of safe supply and administration of non-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
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1 - In-class Test(s) • •
2 - Professional Practice Placement • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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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 • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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