HNN325 - Quality and Safety: Comprehensive Nursing Practice
Unit details
| Year | 2027 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: HNN215, HNN217, HNN222 HNN227, HNN318, HNN321 and HNN329 For courses D381, D387: HNN215, HNN217, HNN222, HNN227, HNN318 and HNN329 For course D355: HNN215, HNN217, HNN222, HNN227, HNN318, HNN329 and one of HNM311 or HNM331 For course H326: Must pass all level 1 and 2 core units and HNN318, 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@deakin.edu.au |
| Corequisite | HNN301 and HNN320 |
| Incompatible with | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment | 1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar in weeks 1-3, 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 of synchronous learning activities and 200-hour professional experience placement. Students will spend 12 hours undertaking guided asynchronous learning activities. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Supplementary information | *National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute students only. |
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 to practice as a registered nurse in a variety of health care settings.
Mandatory student checks
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Develop comprehensive plans of care to support safe and quality person-centred care across health care contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO2 | Demonstrate independence in psychomotor 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 |
Note – From 2026, Deakin commenced introducing Graduate Attributes (GAs), which define the distinctive characteristics of a Deakin graduate. You may notice some units still refer to Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) during this transition period.
Assessment
| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Professional Experience Placement (Hurdle) | 200 hours | Ungraded pass/Ungraded Fail |
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| Assessment 2: Peer-Review of comprehensive care (Hurdle) | 30 minutes | Ungraded pass/Ungraded 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 requirements
- Must pass Professional experience placement (Hurdle) and Peer-Review of comprehensive care (Hurdle).
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.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
To fully engage with Deakin's learning experiences, students must be able to access and use internet-connected devices as outlined in computing requirements at Deakin.
To support student success at Deakin, we have a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) learning environment that acknowledges that students and educators bring with them the digital tools they regularly use to complete academic tasks. These tools stay with you beyond the classroom, helping you to keep learning, explore ideas more deeply, and connect with knowledge in ways that matter to you.
Students requiring a loan device should visit our Loan Laptop webpage or students requiring longer-term assistance should visit our Student Financial Assistance webpage.
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.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current Students website.
Commonwealth Prac Payment
From 1 July 2025, the Australian Government is intending to introduce the Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP) to assist eligible students with costs related to mandatory placements in higher education courses for teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work.