NURS12161 - Professional Experience Placement 2

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will have the opportunity to practice nursing care in the medical-surgical 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 120 hour block professional experience placement in a medical-surgical 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 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisites:

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

NURS11170 Professional Experience Placement 1 or NURS11161 Clinical Nursing Practice 1

Co-requisite:

NURS12160 Alterations in Health or NURS12155 Medical-Surgical 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 1 - 2025 Profile
Mixed Mode
Rockhampton

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 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 79.27% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 13.29% 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: SUTE student comments
Feedback
Overall PEP2 was satisfactory however there are changes that need to be made especially within medication calculations quizzes. We do not round to nearest thousandths in nursing so why should this be asked in a medication calculations quiz. From listening to other students there have been numerous difficulties in regards to the quiz and therefore I believe this does need to be looked at more closely and scrutinized before opening to students to make questions more relatable to nursing.
Recommendation
Medication calculation quizzes will be revised.
Action Taken
Medication calculation quizzes were revised and reformatted.
Source: SUTE Student comments
Feedback
Jamming 3 days worth of information that should of been over 4-5 days.
Recommendation
The residential school is currently 3 days and very content heavy, there is discussion of moving to a four day residential school.
Action Taken
This was unable to be addressed in 2023 however the residential school in 2024 will be reimagined.
Source: SUTE Student comments
Feedback
Very enjoyable subject, only feedback would be in regards to residential schools. Residential school did feel slightly rushed and unorganised, still felt equipped with the skills for placement, just would have been awesome to have a bit of extra time to practice skills on the day.
Recommendation
As above, content is being revised and adding a fourth day has been proposed.
Action Taken
As above residential school in 2024 will be reimagined to allow more time to practice.
Source: SUTE comments
Feedback
I liked the subject how there was a residential school and then placement/ANSAT and no other assessments to complete. This made it easy to focus on the placement and other subjects without the stress of having a written assessment as well.
Recommendation
Continue to focus on skills acquisition and practice in residential schools without overburdening with written assessments.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE comments
Feedback
Not to any fault of the educators at residential school as they were absolutely fabulous, but the amount of content crammed into such a short period of time was impossible to learn and for them to teach.
Recommendation
Content within the PEP 2 residential school will be revised. Clinical assessments on Day 3 are being removed to allow students more time to learn and practice.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE comments
Feedback
We need more advanced notice for residential school and placements. I feel there isn't enough time after we get the dates to be able to book accommodation (for those who aren't local) and time away from jobs.
Recommendation
This is being looked into to make it more student focussed.
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 assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of people experiencing acute and deteriorating alterations in health in the simulated and clinical environment
  2. Develop person-centred, evidence-based plans of care for a person experiencing an acute alteration in health identified in the National Health Priority Areas (NHPA) and in a perioperative context.
  3. 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

Blood management

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

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
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
1 2 3
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
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10