Unit Synopsis
Education is fundamental to the nursing role. The aim of this unit is to provide you with an understanding of the basic concepts associated with their role as educator. You will be provided with an opportunity to explore theories and principles of learning as they apply to a variety of practice settings. The unit will focus on resources and strategies for use in the development, implementation and evaluation of the diverse range of educational activities undertaken by the professional nurse.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites Students must have completed 96 credit points and NURS12158 Clinical Nursing Practice 3 or NURS13126 Critical Care NursingImportant 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2019
Term 1 - 2019 Profile
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 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. Presentation and Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 5.00 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 85.71% 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: Students and Unit Coordinator
Assessment - development of an education plan.
Due to the new knowledge required by this assessment task the following recommendation is made: An exemplar for this assessment be provided to students in the next offering of this unit.
This assessment was re-engineered for Term 1 2019.
Source: Student evaluations
I believe the assessments clearly outlined the information that was being taught in the weekly lectures. The weekly lectures were informative and I felt supported. I am thankful I decided to complete this subject. I believe it will help me throughout my nursing career.
Continue to ensure weekly content is clearly visible to the students. Continue to ensure lectures and tutorials support the weekly content and the assessments planned from the content clearly meet Learning Objectives for the unit.
In Progress
Source: Student evaluations
CQU needs to get a better platform than Moodle to assist teachers with their content delivery.
This is a university operational matter, and while there are some issues with Moodle at times, I did not see any problems because of the Moodle system this term.
In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
The best aspect of this unit was the relation it had towards the CNP4 subject. Being able to identify how important nurse education is during this subject helped signify the importance when discussing nurse education and health promotion in CNP4 res school.
Unit content was focused on general registered nurses role in health education in all environments of nursing. This comment is very pleasing as the learning impacted the student during their clinical placement which is the place where the theory learned, needs to apply.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Examine the theory and practice of adult learning in the context of professional nursing.
- Assess factors that impact on the process of education in professional nursing.
- Explore inclusive educational initiatives for nurses in the clinical setting.
- Evaluate and reflect on the educational process.
The learning outcomes are linked to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Standards for registered nurses and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia competencies.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | |||||||