NSN923 Nursing Professional Practice
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| Unit code: | NSN923 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,236 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | NSN923 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Graduate capabilities developed in undergraduate study |
| Coordinators: | Jennifer Obazuaye | jennifer.obazuaye@qut.edu.au Olivia Hollingdrake | olivia.hollingdrake@qut.edu.au Helen Donovan | h.donovan@qut.edu.au |
Overview
As healthcare providers, nurses need knowledge, skills, and attributes to implement culturally safe, person-centred, inclusive care for people from all backgrounds across the lifespan. To fulfil regulatory requirements, ethical, professional, and quality standards, this foundational unit introduces cultural safety as a model underpinning professional nursing practice. Nursing practice maintains national and public safety, so requires a sound understanding of National Health Priority Areas and the expectations of consumers, employers, the profession, and the wider community. Knowledge of the impact of our own cultures and those of professions and systems is essential to provide inclusive nursing care that is free of racism, stigma, and other forms of discrimination across all contexts of nursing practice.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply knowledge of the NMBA Standards of Practice (2016), NMBA Code of Conduct (2018), National Health Priority Areas, National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, and Aged Care Quality Standards that underpin the nursing profession, and explain how they relate to the provision of culturally safe, person-centred care
- Develop a foundational capacity to apply theoretical frameworks to support reflection and acknowledge the relationship of self to professionalism, inter- and intra-professional practice, and the provision of inclusive, culturally safe, person-centred care
- Analyse and reflect on your personal social position, experience, and cultural identity to understand the provision of culturally safe nursing care across primary, secondary, and tertiary health care contexts
- Apply knowledge of historical, social, and political issues (social determinants of health) to explain the socio-political context of health care and the impact of these structures on human health and consumer experiences of health systems
- Critically review the dominant values, assumptions, and processes that shape health systems, care-delivery models, and nursing practice in Australia across primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare contexts.
- Interpret dimensions of communication to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships and partnerships in health care.
Content
- Course themes: Person-centred care and therapeutic communication; cultural safety;
evidence-based foundations of safe practice - NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice: 1, 2, 4
- National Safety and quality health service standards: 2. Partnering with consumers, 5. Comprehensive care, 6. Communicating for safety
- Aged Care Standards: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Introductory: Learning that supports development of skills that include searching and reviewing research and other evidence for translation into practice.
- Intra /interprofessional practice: Faculty of Health – IPE launch pad - module 1
This unit introduces the social determinants of health that underpin cultural safety and focuses on societal responses to diversity and the impacts of these responses on the health of all Australians. These concepts lead into a focus on regional, national, and global health care priorities. The unit provides a foundation for developing intra- and interprofessional practice to produce knowledgeable, capable, and safe service provider, so that people feel comfortable and respected and their dignity is protected at all times.
Module 1. Person centred care and therapeutic communication.
NMBA Professional practice standards (2016); Aged care quality standards (Aust Govt) examined from the position of:
- Person-centred care: what it is and its role in providing safe provision of quality nursing care.
- Therapeutic communication: what it is and how person-centred-care is central in developing a therapeutic relationship
Module 2: Social determinants of health across health care sectors in Australia.
Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights (ACSQHC) and the National Health Priority Areas Australia (AIHW), examined from the position of:
- Social determinants that influence health care needs and health literacy levels across the Australian population.
- Sociological perspectives on health systems that influences consumer experiences of health inequality and health inequity.
Module 3: Nursing Practice and the Australian Health Care System
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (ACSQHC) examined from the position of:
- Nursing practice within care delivery models and different levels of health care (primary, secondary, tertiary).
- Nursing practice within health care delivery systems across different health care sectors (remote, rural, regional, metropolitan)
Module 4: Cultural safety and culturally safe practice.
NMBA Code of Conduct (2018) and Code of Ethics (2021) examined from the position of:
- Cultural safety and creating a culturally safe health care environment.
- Applying the concepts of cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity and cultural competence to achieve culturally safe nursing practice.
Module 5: Leadership and change.
NMBA Decision making frameworks (scope of practice, delegation of care, advocacy) examined from the position of:
- Leadership in nursing practice: what is a nurse leader and how do nurse leaders ensure safe practice.
- As a nurse leader, working to be part of the change process to influence positive health outcomes
Module 6: Professional collaboration
The Open Disclosure Framework (ACSQHC) and (NMBA) Standards of Practice (2016) examined from the position of:
- Collaborative partnerships and conflict resolution.
- Inter and intra professional communication and teamwork
Learning Approaches
This unit will use a blend of face to face and online learning. You will be expected to actively engage with, and take responsibility for, self-directed learning. The unit coordinator and tutors will be available for consultation throughout the semester in on-campus and online contexts. You are encouraged to develop peer networks to support a collaborative approach to learning.
The unit will use a blend of face-to-face and online activities to develop analytical skills, self-reflection skills, and a collaborative approach to inquiry, inter/professionalism and learning. You will develop and practice reflection skills and reflective writing. You will engage in group discussions and activities in class to begin to confront and explore key themes and ideas, and to apply models, frameworks, and standards for inquiry and practice. To appreciate the value of peers and the knowledge and experience they bring, small group tutorials will use structured exercises, readings and resources to lead collaborative learning, encourage critical inquiry, and to reflect on a range of issues.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
- Ongoing formative feedback via online quizzes, self-check exercises, peer feedback and through individual or whole of class feedback in online discussions or comments in online communities
- Formal written or recorded feedback on both formative and summative assessment tasks Via Turnitin, in addition to the grade on the Criterion Reference Assessment sheet.
- The unit coordinator and tutors will be available for consultation throughout the semester in on-campus and online contexts
Assessment
Overview
There are three summative assessments to be completed in this unit. The first develops your capability in reflection and understanding of cultural safety and ethical practice. Assessment two requires you to apply your understanding of nursing professional practice concepts and selected themes to a provided example highlighting your understanding of therapeutic relationships and partnerships in health care.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quizzes
You will complete a series of quizzes (two in weeks 3 and 5) which consists of a series of multi-choice questions. The quiz will be invigilated in tutorials. Concepts examined are drawn from lecture and tutorial activities.
Assessment: Selected tutorial workbook activities
You will select two workbook activities / questions from a defined set. You will respond and integrate evidence, drawing on unit materials. Tutorial experience and tutor facilitation of discussion will inform your understanding evidenced in this task.
This assessment provides feedback on your understanding of unit concepts, progress and informs your preparation for assessment 3.
Assessment: Critique of a health care issue
You will undertake an analysis of a current real world health care issue. You will be asked to examine the issue with reference to the principles of person-centred care, cultural safety, professional standards, and regulatory requirements.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit. Substantial computer-based work will be required, please make sure you adjust your workstation and take regular rest breaks.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.NS89 Master of Nursing - Entry to Practice
- Analyse and apply scientific knowledge and skills in context of nursing and related disciplines to the provision of holistic, person-centred, evidence-based nursing across the life span
Relates to: Critique of a health care issue - Evaluate practice outcomes drawing upon critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to examine person-centred nursing care and make evidence-based decisions
Relates to: Quizzes, Critique of a health care issue - Practice as an ethical, socially inclusive and culturally safe practitioner, reflective of your professional nursing identity across a range of health service settings
Relates to: Quizzes, Critique of a health care issue - Demonstrate developing socially informed leadership capabilities of self and others to achieve positive individual and community outcomes in dynamic health care contexts
Relates to: Quizzes