NURS13142 - Professional Experience Placement 4

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Proposed Unit Synopsis In this unit, you will practice nursing care in the complex care environment. You will apply the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Registered nurse standards for practice (2016). You will continue to explore the importance of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017) and apply the Patient Safety Competency Framework (PSCF) (Levett-Jones et al., 2017). You will be expected to identify risk and recognise and respond appropriately to the deteriorating patient in the simulated and clinical environment. You will work within your scope of practice using the decision-making framework (NMBA, 2020). You are required to participate in a compulsory four (4) day residential school prior to attending professional experience placement for this unit. This unit includes a 160 hour block professional experience placement in a complex care environment. You must meet specific mandatory health, safety and security requirements to be eligible to attend your professional experience placement. Professional experience placements may be limited in your community and you may be placed in other locations. Please be prepared financially and personally to cover the costs to relocate for placements. Due to the limited availability of placements, some block placements have start and/or end dates that fall outside standard term dates.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisites:

NURS12163 Chronic Health and Community Care or NURS13134 Community Nursing Perspectives

NURS12164 Professional Experience Placement 3 or NURS13133 Clinical Nursing Practice 4

Co-requisite:

NURS13141 Acute Alterations in Health in Complex Care Environments

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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Residential School Compulsory Residential School
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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026

Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Mixed Mode

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 Undergraduate 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

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This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 91.89% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 12.03% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
This unit was educational with constructive feedback and relevant to all aspects of Professional Experience Placement 4.
Recommendation
Continue to focus on delivering content that is current and relevant to contemporary nursing practice.
Action Taken
The residential school re-imagined planner delivered content that was current and relevant.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
The Medication Calculations quiz included medication safety questions for the first time this term, and some students felt unprepared to answer these questions.
Recommendation
Student feedback to be used to inform the ongoing development of Math Central learning resources.
Action Taken
Time was taken on Day 1 for students to practice their medication calculations in a supportive environment and coaching was provided on unsuccessful attempts. Students were also advised to look at math central and refer to math central for revision, which included medication safety questions.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
The residential school experience seems to vary depending upon who teaches it. I would like for the class to be taught uniformly.
Recommendation
Continue to review and refine teaching and learning resources to support clarity and consistency in teaching delivery.
Action Taken
Residential School Planner is provided to all staff to follow and answers provided to most questions. Prior to commencement of residential schools a staff briefing session was held, the recording was available to staff who were unable to attend the meeting.
Source: Clinical Facilitator
Feedback
Weekly telephone calls from Unit Coordinators when students are undertaking placement are helpful and appreciated.
Recommendation
Maintain weekly telephone contact with Clinical Facilitators and industry partners during clinical placements to provide ongoing support and guidance to staff that are supervising students.
Action Taken
As a team decided Week 1, 2 & 4 would make contact with facility to receive feedback on students. Most facilities fed back that this was good. Industry received an email introducing the unit coordinator who was going to be supporting them and the student in the placement with appropriate documentation attached.
Unit learning Outcomes
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