HNN325 - Quality and Safety: Comprehensive Nursing Practice
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), CBD* Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), CBD*, Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.250 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Meg Pollock Trimester 2: Claire Crossfield |
| Previously: | Comprehensive Nursing Practice |
| Cohort rule: | Must be enrolled in course D355, D381, D387, H326, H329 |
| Campus contact: | Trimester 1: Trimester 2: |
| Prerequisite: | For courses D355, D381, D387: Must pass all of HNN222 HNN227, HNN215, HNN217, HNN318, and one of HNN329 or HNN319. |
| Corequisite: | HNN301, HNN320 |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| 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. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2 hour seminar per week 4 x 2 hour simulations over the trimester 200 hour clinical placement |
Note:*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery 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 clinical 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 clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical 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.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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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
Trimester 1 and Trimester 2:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Peer Review | TBC | 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 the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HNN325 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.