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NURS20173 - Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences Project 1

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will apply research design and ethical principles to health, safety, or wellbeing research. You will develop and submit a quality improvement research proposal based on an area of interest in your field of practice. You will also develop and submit an accompanying CQUniversity Human Research Ethics application for your quality improvement research project. Successful completion of the unit will result in ethical approval to undertake the proposed project.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Corequisites: NURS20167 Literature Review in Health, Safety and Wellbeing; NURS20168 Designing Research in Nursing, Midwifery and Social Sciences

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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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 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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Research Proposal 60%
2. Report 40%
3. Report 0%

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%).

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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: Discussion with student
Feedback
This unit overlaps with NURS20168 which is usually undertaken concurrently.
Recommendation
This unit will be rewritten to ensure less overlap of unit content and scaffolded learning.
Action Taken
Unit rewritten and each week is centred on an aspect of the research proposal or ethics submission to align knowledge requirement and learning with the practical application of completing the submission.
Source: Discussion with student.
Feedback
Individual student-focused teaching helped to achieve a great outcome. Discussions with the unit coordinator were necessary to devise a research question for Assessment 1 (Research Proposal).
Recommendation
Future students will be encouraged at the beginning of the term to regularly engage with the learning content and the unit coordinator so that a viable research question and project can be proposed in Assessment 1.
Action Taken
Despite repeated attempts to encourage early engagement, students were slow to commence looking at Moodle. An additional Zoom was created and students were encouraged to meet with the Unit Coordinator as required outside scheduled Zoom times.
Source: student discussions
Feedback
Students found the unit difficult and did not realise it would be so time consuming
Recommendation
Prepare students for the increased complexity of this unit in NURS20167 Literature Review. Continue to recommend early engagement and email students in the first weeks of Term to prepare them.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Justify the use of ethical principles in research
  2. Formulate solutions for ethical dilemmas in health, safety and wellbeing research
  3. Design a quality improvement research proposal
  4. Execute a successful low risk ethics application.

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Research Proposal • • •
2 - Report • • •
3 - Report • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes 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 • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8
1 - Research Proposal • • • • • • •
2 - Report • • • • • • •
3 - Report • • • • • • •