HNN325 - Quality and Safety: Comprehensive Nursing Practice
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.250 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Meg Pollock Trimester 2: Claire Crossfield |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in D355, D381, D387, H326, H329 |
| Previously: | Comprehensive Nursing Practice |
| Campus contact: | Trimester 1: Trimester 2: |
| Prerequisite: | For course H329: Must pass all of HNN215, HNN217, HNN222 HNN227, HNN318, HNN321 and one of [HNN319 or HNN329]. For courses D381, D387: Must pass all of HNN215, HNN217, HNN222, HNN227, HNN318, and one of [HNN319 or HNN329]. For course D355: Must pass all of HNN215, HNN217, HNN222, HNN227, HNN318, and one of [HNN319 or HNN329] and one of [HNM311 or HNM331]. For course H326: Must pass all level 1 and 2 core units and HNN318, and one of [HNN319 or HNN329], and 2 elective credit points. Note: Enrolled and/or Internationally qualified nurses may have altered prerequisite requirements. If required, course advice can be sought from health-enquire@deakin.edu.au |
| Corequisite: | HNN301, HNN320 |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar per week in weeks 1-3, and 8-10 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will spend on average 300 hours over the trimester undertaking synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning activities for this unit. This will include 20 hours synchronous learning activities and a 200-hour professional experience placement. Students will spend 12 hours undertaking guided asynchronous learning activities. |
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 is a capstone unit and is the final unit in the Clinical Studies Cluster. In this unit students are provided with the opportunity to consolidate and extend knowledge and skills and apply them to a variety of situations.
Students will further develop skills in advanced communication techniques for safe and quality care, prioritisation of care, responding to patient deterioration, and managing patient symptoms.
During a five (5) week professional experience placement students will have the opportunity to further develop and apply relevant knowledge and skills learned in this unit and all previous units in preparation for the mindset of a registered nurse in a variety of health care settings.
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 | Create a comprehensive plan of care to manage individuals and their families across a variety of health care contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO2 | Demonstrate independence in psychomotor skills and self-management skills to deliver safe and quality nursing care in a variety of health care contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Engage in professional and therapeutic person-centred communication to ensure safe and quality care. | GLO2: Communication GLO7: Teamwork |
Assessment
| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Peer Review | 30 minutes | 15% |
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| Assessment 2: Examination | 2 hours | 60% |
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| Assessment 3: Professional experience placement | 200 hours | 25% (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
- Professional experience placement - Pass/Fail
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for HNN325 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.