NURS6103Nurse Practitioner Identity

Course handbook

Description

This is the capstone course for the Master of Nurse Practitioner program where students prepare to fully take up their Nurse Practitioner identity. Critically analysing their advanced clinical practice, students (re)turn their gaze to the professional responsibilities and technologies of their professional self as a Nurse Practitioner in Australia. Students will have multiple opportunities to engage with specialist theory and final skills development to enhance their growth as an advanced clinician. With their proven theoretical and clinical readiness, shown particularly through the achievement of the NMBA Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice, students will be able to seek endorsement, on program completion, as a Nurse Practitioner with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. This course utilises Integrated Professional Practice hours, including embedded clinical supervision, to assist students meet the final learning outcomes in the Master of Nurse Practitioner program.This capstone course is coordinated by a Nurse Practitioner, pulling together the four domains in NMBA 2021 Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice; Clinical, Education, Research and Leadership, under the umbrella of person-centred care. The delivery of modules within the course follows this framework to enhance the students’ Nurse Practitioner identity.

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Replacing course(s)

This course replaces the following course(s): NURS6622. Students who have successfully completed NURS6622 are not eligible to enrol in NURS6103.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. clearly articulate the complexities of the Nurse Practitioner identity in the present, and projected into the foreseeable future, considering the domains of clinical, education, leadership and research for the Nurse Practitioner

2. critically analyse, and undertake, advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for individuals/groups/communities, including the choice and use of diagnostics, both pathology and medical imaging, and the prescription of medicines

3. show advanced understanding of risk and measurement for continuous improvement in Nurse Practitioner practice, particularly as they apply to the Nurse Practitioner metaspecialties

4. critically analyse major processes in healthcare, for example, informatics, cultural safety, education, research, leadership, technology and/or business thorough the needs of clients/patients/groups/communities

5. demonstrate meeting the NMBA Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice to show theoretical and clinical readiness to seek endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia

Content

Module 1: Big data, technology and global healthcare

Module 2: Managing risk: Clinical governance, clinical supervision, health care evaluation, health care metrics, safety of medicines, and human and material resource management

Module 2: Research: Working from, and for, a strong evidence base

Module 3: Sharing knowledge: Education in Nurse Practitioner practice

Module 4: Leadership in Nurse Practitioner practice

Module 5: Recap: Advanced clinical capabilities in Nurse Practitioner practice

Module 6: Healthcare and Sustainability

Module 7: Innovation

Module 8: Growing a business: Private practice for Nurse Practitioners

Module 9: Nurse Practitioner Identity: Into the future

Module 10: Nurse Practitioner Identity: Celebration

Requisite

Program Enrolment Rule:

Available to students in the following program(s):

Master of Nurse Practitioner [40336]

Course Pre-Requisite:

Must have successfully completed the following course(s):

NURS6101

PHAR6701

Course Pre-Requisite or Concurrent:

Must have passed or be currently enrolled in the following course(s):

NURS6102

PHAR6702

Assessment items

Written Assignment: Position Statement
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Written Assignment: Multimedia Project Proposal
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.

Viva Voce: Viva Voce Examination - Pass/Fail
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.

Written Assignment: Professional Practice Portfolio - Pass/Fail
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.

Contact hours

Trimester 3 - 2024 - Online

Course outline

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