HNN112 - Quality and Safety: Nursing Practice 1
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Community Based Delivery (CBD)*, Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Elyse Coffey |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in D355, D381, D387, H326, H329 |
| Campus contact: | Waterfront (Geelong): Amy Tagliante Saracino |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | HNN120, HBS109 |
| Incompatible with: | HNN110 |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2 hour seminar in weeks 1 - 9 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will spend on average 150 hours over the trimester undertaking synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning activities for this unit. This will include 36 hours synchronous learning activities and an 80-hour professional experience placement. Students will spend 18 hours undertaking guided asynchronous learning activities. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:*National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute students only. Department of Health – Safety Screening Requirements - Police Record Check, Working With Children Check and Immunisation Status In accordance with the Department of Health policy, all students are required to undertake a Police Record Check prior to professional experience placements in each calendar year of their course. In accordance with the Worker Screening Act 2020, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at the commencement of their course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of professional experience placement will not be able to undertake professional experience placement and this will impede progress in the course. Students are required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student’s immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation. | |
Content
This unit is the first of two in the Clinical Studies Cluster: Year 1. Aligned with quality and safety principles, opportunities are provided for students to explore and develop essential nursing knowledge and skills necessary for the provision of person-centred care.
Students will develop beginning clinical decision-making skills necessary for the provision of person- centred, quality, and safe care. Essential concepts for nursing practice such as communication, promotion of comfort, management of symptoms, infection prevention and control, and management of risk will be examined and applied.
During a two (2) week professional experience placement (PEP) students will have the opportunity to develop specific mindsets and apply relevant knowledge and skills learned in this and other units.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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| ULO1 | Apply the nursing process at an introductory level: assessment, problem identification, planning, implementation and evaluation to manage individuals and families’ essential needs. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Perform psychomotor skills and self-management skills to deliver safe and quality nursing care. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Engage in professional and person-centred communication to ensure safe and quality care. | GLO2: Communication |
Assessment
Trimester 1:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Care Plan | 500 words equivalent | 20% |
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| Assessment 2: Clinical Skills - Hurdle | Satisfactory completion of Clinical Skills - Hurdle | 20% (Pass/Fail) |
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| Assessment 3: Examination | 90 minutes | 50% |
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| Assessment 4: Professional Experience Placement (PEP) - Hurdle | 80 hours | 10% (Pass/Fail) |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
- Clinical Skills - Pass/Fail
- Professional Experience Placement (PEP) - Pass/Fail
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for HNN112 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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