This is your final unit in the Bachelor of Nursing which must commence and be completed in the final six months of your course. 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 risks 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 240-hour block professional experience placement to consolidate your knowledge, skills, and experiences prior to being deemed eligible for registration as a nurse (Division 1) with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). You must meet specific mandatory health, safety and security requirements to be eligible to attend each 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 of relocating for placements. Due to the limited availability of placements, some block placements have start and/or end dates that fall outside standard term dates.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 3 |
Credit Points | 12 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Co-requisites: NURS13144 Preparation for Practice as a Registered Nurse OR NURS13135 The Professional Nurse Pre-requisites: 120 credit points within the CL91 Bachelor of Nursing course NURS13142 Professional Experience Placement 4 and NURS13141 Acute Alterations in Health in Complex Care Environments OR NURS12158 Clinical Nursing Practice 3 NURS13139 Building Professional Resilience in Nursing and NURS13140 Law and Ethical Considerations in the Profession of Nursing OR NURS13134 Community Nursing Perspectives NURS12163 Chronic Health and Community Care and NURS12164 Professional Experience Placement 3 OR NURS13133 Clinical Nursing Practice 4 NURS12162 Mental Health Nursing with Professional Experience Placement OR NURS12157 Concepts of Mental Health Nursing BIOH12011 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 1 and BIOH12012 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 2 OR BIOH11006 Advanced Anatomy and Physiology, NURS12154 Pharmacology for Nursing Practice and BIOH12008 Human Pathophysiology NURS12160 Alterations in Health OR NURS12155 Medical-Surgical Nursing NURS12165 Evidence to Inform Nursing Practice OR NURS11158 Evidence Informed Nursing Practice This unit must be completed in the final term of CL91 Bachelor of Nursing 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 |
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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).
Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
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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Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 89.47% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 11.8% response rate.
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.