MWC5208 · Advanced clinical practice in wound care

Overview

In this unit you will have the opportunity to develop and exhibit professional leadership behaviours essential for advanced wound care practice. Learning opportunities will enable you to integrate effective change management strategies that enhance quality and improve outcomes in wound management across various healthcare settings. You will critically evaluate evidence-based literature to inform and advance professional practice, ensuring your wound management approaches are grounded in the most current and robust research. This knowledge will prepare you to justify and implement comprehensive educational strategies, including planning, delivery and evaluation processes that strengthen quality and outcomes in wound care provision. The unit will also develop your understanding of the consultative role of the advanced wound care practitioner, enabling you to rationalise and apply specialist expertise when caring for patients requiring complex wound management. These advanced skills will position you as a leader and change agent in wound care practice, capable of driving improvements in patient outcomes and professional standards.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Exhibit professional leadership behaviours in advanced wound care practice.
2. Integrate change management strategies that enhance quality and outcomes in wound managment.
3. Evaluate critically evidence based literature to inform professional practice in respect to wound management.
4. Justify educational strategies, inclusive of planning, implementing and evaluation that strengthen the quality and outcomes in the provision of wound care.
5. Rationalise the consultative role of the advanced wound care practitioner when caring for patients requiring complex management.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. The unit requires on average 10-12 hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include teacher directed learning, reading time, participation in online discussions or discussion groups, research and preparation for assignments.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.