NURS28010 - Advanced Health Assessment, Diagnostics and Interventions

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General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides students with the principles of advanced knowledge and clinical skills to conduct comprehensive health assessments, differentiate abnormal from normal assessment findings, make evidence-informed diagnoses, and develop management plans specific to individual’s health needs. You will integrate the principles of advanced anatomy and physiology while undertaking comprehensive systematic health assessments using a designated health assessment framework. You will learn to synthesise your assessment findings to make evidence-informed person-centred diagnoses that incorporate the principles of disease pathophysiology. This unit will expand your knowledge of clinical and diagnostic reasoning and enable you to develop advanced communication skills to collaboratively advocate for individual’s and communities’ health outcomes in diverse healthcare settings. In this unit, you will work through online modules and real-world case studies in preparation for integrated professional practice. In developing your advanced practice capability as a nurse practitioner, you will undertake 40 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice under the supervision of your mentor/clinical support team in your clinical healthcare setting to observe, conduct and develop advanced clinical and assessment skills, perform and interpret diagnostic investigations, and evaluate findings to lead to person-centred, culturally safe diagnoses and consumer-focused management plans. Due to the nature of consumer presentations in healthcare settings, some integrated professional practice hours may occur outside standard term dates. Students must be enrolled in the Master of Nurse Practitioner course to undertake this unit.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in the Master of Nurse Practitioner course to enrol into this unit.

Co-requisite: Foundations of Nurse Practitioner Practice.

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 No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2026


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. Portfolio 30%
2. Case Study 40%
3. Case Study 30%
4. Portfolio 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%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

Previous Feedback

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.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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

  1. Develop and apply a systematic approach to undertake comprehensive, holistic and culturally safe assessments for individuals in diverse healthcare settings
  2. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology and synthesise abnormal and normal assessment findings
  3. Synthesise and interpret assessment data to make evidence-informed, person-centred clinical decisions
  4. Formulate person-centred, culturally safe diagnoses informed by comprehensive assessment data and investigations
  5. Collaboratively communicate assessment findings and diagnoses with consumers and healthcare teams in diverse healthcare settings.

Content in this unit is linked to the Nurse practitioner standards for practice (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2021).

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures • • •
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