NSN809 Specialist Acute Nursing Practice
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| Unit code: | NSN809 |
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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, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | NSN809 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit will develop your theoretical knowledge and clinical skills to apply evidence-based practice in acute healthcare contexts. Individuals in acute care environments experience a wide range of complex health care problems. Drawing on the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards, you will examine patient care in your acute care setting taking into consideration cultural safety for diverse populations including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. You will apply specialist knowledge and evidence to guide your clinical reasoning and decision-making to optimise patient outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply specialist knowledge and skills to make evidence-based decisions to inform practice in acute care settings.
- Examine the application of National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards to patient care within your workplace.
- Engage varied communication modes to effectively articulate specialist nursing knowledge.
Content
This unit will cover the following topics:
- Care bundles
- Models of care
- National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards; and
- Patient deterioration.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Lectures (online and/or face-to-face) to support knowledge development and academic literacy skills
- Online self-directed learning
- Peer presentation using digital technologies
- Individual research and readings; and
- Collaborative activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you through the following:
- Formative feedback in lectures and activities
- Comments and grading via rubrics on summative assessment
- Feedback from peers.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quality and Safety Presentation
Identify a current or past quality and safety improvement initiative in your workplace, such as a project that aligns with one of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. Drawing on the literature, critically analyse the improvement strategies and tools.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Case Study Reflection
Engage in an online action learning set throughout the semester focused on improving the effectiveness of acute care frontline teams. Reflect on the development of facilitation skills needed to develop and demonstrate personal effectiveness, foster the effectiveness of others, and transform practice.
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 the general conduct of this unit.
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: Case Study Reflection - Critically analyse, evaluate, and reflect on specialist nursing knowledge, evidence and practice to improve patient care and health outcomes.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation, Case Study Reflection - Use evidence-based theories and frameworks to inform emerging leadership practice in nursing and interprofessional collaborations.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation - Communicate complex evidence-based knowledge through education, professional communication, and a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation
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: Case Study Reflection - Critically analyse evidence to inform decision-making in advanced nursing and interprofessional care contexts.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation, Case Study Reflection - Design and develop ethically appropriate research and/or professional plans that respond to a gap in health care that informs best practice.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation - Communicate complex evidence-based findings through professional dissemination using a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | NSN809 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit will develop your theoretical knowledge and clinical skills to apply evidence-based practice in acute healthcare contexts. Individuals in acute care environments experience a wide range of complex health care problems. Drawing on the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards, you will examine patient care in your acute care setting taking into consideration cultural safety for diverse populations including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. You will apply specialist knowledge and evidence to guide your clinical reasoning and decision-making to optimise patient outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply specialist knowledge and skills to make evidence-based decisions to inform practice in acute care settings.
- Examine the application of National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards to patient care within your workplace.
- Engage varied communication modes to effectively articulate specialist nursing knowledge.
Content
This unit will cover the following topics:
- Care bundles
- Models of care
- National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards; and
- Patient deterioration.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Lectures (online and/or face-to-face) to support knowledge development and academic literacy skills
- Online self-directed learning
- Peer presentation using digital technologies
- Individual research and readings; and
- Collaborative activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you through the following:
- Formative feedback in lectures and activities
- Comments and grading via rubrics on summative assessment
- Feedback from peers.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quality and Safety Presentation
Identify a current or past quality and safety improvement initiative in your workplace, such as a project that aligns with one of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. Drawing on the literature, critically analyse the improvement strategies and tools.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Case Study Reflection
Engage in an online action learning set throughout the semester focused on improving the effectiveness of acute care frontline teams. Reflect on the development of facilitation skills needed to develop and demonstrate personal effectiveness, foster the effectiveness of others, and transform practice.
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 the general conduct of this unit.
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: Case Study Reflection - Critically analyse, evaluate, and reflect on specialist nursing knowledge, evidence and practice to improve patient care and health outcomes.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation, Case Study Reflection - Use evidence-based theories and frameworks to inform emerging leadership practice in nursing and interprofessional collaborations.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation - Communicate complex evidence-based knowledge through education, professional communication, and a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation
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: Case Study Reflection - Critically analyse evidence to inform decision-making in advanced nursing and interprofessional care contexts.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation, Case Study Reflection - Design and develop ethically appropriate research and/or professional plans that respond to a gap in health care that informs best practice.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation - Communicate complex evidence-based findings through professional dissemination using a range of digital technologies.
Relates to: Quality and Safety Presentation