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NURS29012 - Nurse Practitioner Integrated Professional Practice 2

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit is the capstone and final Integrated Professional Practice unit in the Master of Nurse Practitioner course. The unit builds on and incorporates the knowledge and skills learned throughout the Master of Nurse Practitioner course to enable you to develop increased autonomous practice, professional capability, and leadership skills in your specialty field of clinical practice, to meet the Nurse practitioner standards for practice (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA], 2021). You will also consolidate your advanced knowledge, leadership and clinical skills in the contexts of comprehensive health assessment and diagnostic reasoning to develop culturally safe, trauma-informed, collaborative plans of care for consumers, families, communities and interdisciplinary healthcare teams. The models of care you lead will incorporate the principles of continuous quality improvement to provide a consumer-focused approach to innovative, culturally safe healthcare service delivery for diverse populations, including consumers of various age groups, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, vulnerable groups, and consumers from metropolitan, rural and remote locations. As you progress through the unit, you will practice more autonomously and demonstrate mastery of comprehensive health assessments, diagnostic reasoning, appropriate use of clinical diagnostics, implementation of appropriate therapeutic interventions, person-centred diagnoses, and independent and collaborative management of plans of consumer-focused care. In this unit, you will work through online modules and real-world case studies in preparation for integrated professional practice. In continuing to develop in the role of nurse practitioner, you will undertake 150 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice under the supervision of your mentor/clinical support team and nurse academic. 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 9
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.

Pre-requisites:

  • Foundation of Nurse Practitioner Practice
  • Advanced Health Assessment, Diagnostics and Interventions
  • Advanced Practice Pharmacology 1
  • Advanced Practice Pharmacology 2
  • Nurse Practitioner Integrated Professional Practice 1.

Co-requisite: Designing Research and Evidence Translation B.

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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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2025

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2025

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. Presentation 20%
2. Portfolio 30%
3. Oral Examination 50%
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%).

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Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Demonstrate a systematic approach to conducting comprehensive and holistic person-centred health assessments, engaging in diagnostic reasoning, making evidence-informed diagnoses, and collaborating to develop person-centred, culturally safe, and trauma-informed management plans of care that incorporate appropriate therapeutic pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions
  2. Demonstrate autonomous practice in collaboration with the interdisciplinary healthcare team, professional capability, and leadership skills, according to the NMBA Nurse practitioner standards for practice, in your specialty field of clinical practice to support consumers, families, and communities, across the life span, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, diverse and vulnerable groups located in metropolitan, rural and remote locations
  3. Demonstrate advanced written, oral, and technology-informed communication skills in the safe delivery of nurse practitioner-led consumer care across interdisciplinary settings, including but not limited to primary healthcare settings
  4. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and leadership skills, including clinical, communication and informatic skills, incorporating the principles of continuous quality improvement to develop, lead, transform and implement nurse practitioner-led models of health service delivery to engage with diverse consumers with complex healthcare needs.

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
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Presentation • • • •
2 - Portfolio • • • •
3 - Oral Examination • • • •
4 - Portfolio • • • •
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 • • • •
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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