NUR5601 · Nurse practitioner essentials 1

Overview

This unit runs in your first semester of the Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing - Nurse Practitioner. There are several mandatory assessments required by The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) in the Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing - Nurse Practitioner. This unit draws together academic work with workplace activities and is the repository for the workplace assessments. In the workplace, you will have both a clinical mentor, and a professional mentor, who meet regularly with you, set learning objectives and provide feedback. In NUR5601 you will submit the formal agreements with these mentors.

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

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate knowledge, emerging skills, and professional attitudes towards Nurse Practitioner practice with supervision.
2. Utilise interpersonal communication skills, basic problem-solving strategies, and early clinical decision-making processes in supervised professional practice.
3. Explain principles of holistic and person-centred nursing care within a supervised clinical setting.
4. Use evidence to inform clinical decision making and evaluate nursing interventions.
5. Outline the principles of health program planning, delivery and evaluation, and begin to apply these concepts to supervised quality-improvement activities.
6. Explain ethical principles, legal requirements, and key political factors that influence the Nurse Practitioner role.
7. Identify principles of medication management, comprehensive health assessment, and basic diagnostic reasoning under supervision.
8. Demonstrate an emerging ability to apply the NMBA Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice within supervised clinical and workplace activities.

Workload

This is a zero (0) credit point workplace unit, as such has no scheduled teaching activities. Assessments are work-based assessments only.

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