NURS6101
20 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Registered nurses begin their formal journey towards endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner in Australia with this course. Students will enhance their understandings of the legal, political, social and health factors underpinning the evidence-informed health service provision of advanced clinical practice. A review of major pathology is undertaken so as students may then apply advanced understandings to the culturally, legally and ethically safe clinical assessments undertaken by Nurse Practitioners. This is foundational to the use of the diagnostic and clinical intervention work of Nurse Practitioners studied in later courses. This course utilises Integrated Professional Practice hours and diverse clinical practice experiences, including embedded clinical supervision, to grow advanced capabilities in clinical interviewing and assessment as the students begin to take up the identity of the Nurse Practitioner.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Online
- Trimester 1 - 2024
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): NURS6621 and NURS6801. Students who have successfully completed NURS6621 or NURS6801 are not eligible to enrol in NURS6101.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. critically evaluate the evidence underpinning the Nurse Practitioner Scope and Standards of Practice, in light of primary health care, and professional, cultural, geographical, technological, political, legislative and ethical frameworks
2. demonstrate advanced knowledge of pathophysiology, particularly as it applies to an individual Nurse Practitioner metaspecialty
3. apply advanced understanding, specialised skills and evidence-informed judgements to the safe undertaking of complex history taking and comprehensive clinical examination
4. display advanced capability in high-level communication, consultation and referral, and with emerging technologies
5. critically analyse Nurse Practitioner and other health services for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, vulnerable populations, and individuals and communities with diverse needs
Content
Module 1: Nurse Practitioner Identity
Module 2: Primary Health Care
Module 3: Review of major pathophysiology
Module 4: Comprehensive health assessment
Module 5: The deteriorating patient
Module 6: (Intensive Module A): Health inequities
Module 7: (Intensive Module B): Evidence-informed health services
Requisite
Program Enrolment Rule:
Available to students in the following program(s):
Master of Nurse Practitioner [40336]
Assessment items
Quiz: Online Pathophysiology Quizzes
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Literature Review: Literature Review
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Journal: Reflexive Journal
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Professional Task: Professional Practice Evidence
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.
Compulsory Requirements
Compulsory Placement and WHS Requirements:
- Ahpra Requirement - Provisional or full registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) - Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
Contact hours
Trimester 1 - 2024 - Online
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 100 hour(s) per term
- 100 hours integrated professional practice
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must meet the compulsory attendance requirement.
Lecture-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Workshop-1
- Online 8 hour(s) per day for 3 day(s) starting in week 3
- Workshops will be held over three days in week 3 of term.
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must meet the compulsory attendance requirement.
Course outline
- NURS6101 - Trimester 1, 2024 (Online) (PDF, 324.1 KB)
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