NSN807 Specialist Cancer Nursing Practice
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| Unit code: | NSN807 |
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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 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | NSN807 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Cancer nursing practice utilises complex evidence-based knowledge and management protocols that require specialist theoretical knowledge and technical skills to apply in the provision of person-centered care. The complex and dynamic healthcare environment requires you as the specialist cancer care nurse to have the ability to respond, adapt, implement, evaluate and communicate decisions based on the scope and context of practice in a range of settings. This unit will equip you with the theoretical and practice concepts required to provide effective, person-centered nursing care within a variety of cancer care contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply academic literacy and critical thinking skills to locate, seek, interpret, analyse, synthesise, and integrate evidence into practice.
- Critically analyse clinical situations in the cancer setting to implement and evaluate evidence-based, culturally safe solutions.
- Apply advanced specialist, theoretical and technical knowledge of cancer care to undertake peer review of health service delivery.
- Employ leadership by drawing on evidence-based recommendations and peer review to justify proposed changes to policy that ensure optimal provision of speciality cancer nursing care.
Content
Module content and activities focus on a broad range of specialty healthcare problems encountered in cancer care.
This unit will cover the following topics:
- cancer-specific theoretical knowledge, practical and technical skills
- interprofessional communication as an emerging leader in this field
- explore contemporary clinical practices such as complex toxicity management, genomics, traditional and novel therapies; and
- national and international guidelines.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Lectures (online) to support knowledge development and academic literacy skills
- Online self-directed learning
- Peer review/feedback
- Individual research and readings; and
- Collaborative activities.
In undertaking this unit you will be working in a clinical practice setting and drawing on this experience.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you through the following:
- Formative feedback through student engagement in online lectures and activities
- Comments and grading via rubrics on summative assessment
- Feedback from peers.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment for this unit is comprised of 2 summative items.
This unit will use online web based text matching software that assists students to develop the academic skills required to correctly use and cite reference material as well as check citations to determine and avoid possible instances of plagiarism.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Peer review and annotated reference list
You will choose a guideline, procedure or policy relating to caring for a cancer patient that you would like to review. You will upload your chosen document for your peers in the unit to review. In turn, you will conduct a review of the documents posted by your peers, using current, peer reviewed literature. You will include a brief synthesis of the literature you have used in your review in an annotated reference list
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Policy review report
You will conduct a review of the literature related to the policy or guideline that you have chosen, and synthesise relevant studies for your area of nursing practice. You will consider the peer feedback you have received on your chosen guideline/policy, and discuss how you will use and/or disregard this feedback in informing your report. You will write a report for your manager in relation to the review and present recommendations of your findings that will impact practice decisions in your clinical area.
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.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
In undertaking this unit, students must meet the inherent employment requirements.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Maloney-Newton. (2024). Mosby’s Oncology Nursing Advisor. Elsevier
Risk Assessment Statement
In undertaking this unit you will be working in a clinical practice setting and drawing on this experience. As such, you could be exposed to risks encountered in your nursing practice. You are required to follow the same health and safety guidelines that apply to all staff in your workplace.
Emergency procedures
All facilities require that their health workers are familiar with local emergency procedures. It is your responsibility to locate fire exits, emergency procedures and complete CPR drill and fire safety as required.
Health status and immunisation requirements
- It is strongly recommended that students:
- endeavour at all times to maintain their personal health at a high level;
- are fit to work and have had a reasonable rest period between shifts;
- review their current immunisation status;
- inform the Unit Coordinator if they are aware of any personal condition which may present a risk to themselves or patients, other students, health care agency staff or the general public while on clinical placement.
Confidentiality
As a student in the clinical area, you must treat all information regarding patients, their families and health care facilities with the utmost confidentiality. Information that is documented as part of your learning experiences must preserve client, healthcare colleagues and healthcare facility anonymity and confidentiality. Classroom and online discussion should also adhere to these principles.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.NS32 Graduate Certificate in Nursing
- Demonstrate and apply advanced health care knowledge and skills in a specialist nursing area.
Relates to: Peer review and annotated reference list, Policy review report - Critically analyse, evaluate, and reflect on specialist nursing knowledge, evidence and practice to improve patient care and health outcomes.
Relates to: Policy review report - Use evidence-based theories and frameworks to inform emerging leadership practice in nursing and interprofessional collaborations.
Relates to: Peer review and annotated reference list, Policy review report - Communicate complex evidence-based knowledge through education, professional communication, and a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Peer review and annotated reference list, Policy review report - Reflect on ethical, sustainable and culturally safe practices that embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and diverse perspectives to improve person-centred care.
Relates to: Policy review report
NS95 Master of Nursing
- Apply advanced knowledge and skills to manage and improve nursing practices across diverse and complex contexts to improve health outcomes and service provision.
Relates to: Peer review and annotated reference list, Policy review report - Critically analyse evidence to inform decision-making in advanced nursing and interprofessional care contexts.
Relates to: Policy review report - Design and develop ethically appropriate research and/or professional plans that respond to a gap in health care that informs best practice.
Relates to: Policy review report - Communicate complex evidence-based findings through professional dissemination using a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Peer review and annotated reference list, Policy review report - Initiate, lead and reflect on collaborative practice that advocates for ethically and culturally safe care enabling sustainable health service delivery that embeds a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and diverse perspectives.
Relates to: Policy review report