School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Risk in the Clinical Environment
  • Unit Code

    PSR5101
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kim OLIVER

Description

This unit will focus on the four key domains of clinical risk as articulated by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing (pressure area care, medication error, hand hygiene and falls). Students will examine core concepts about contributing disease processes, intrinsic, and extrinsic factors, that may increase individual patient's clinical risk, using exemplars and case studies from their clinical workplace to authenticate learning and assessment related to the management of risk in the clinical environment.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will involve flexible, on-line teaching and learning to integrate theory attained through this learning and applying it to their individual clinical setting to ensure authenticated assessment.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply an advanced level of theoretical knowledge of complex disease and aging processes, incorporating both intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors which may contribute to clinical risk.
  2. Critically analyse intervention and risk assessment strategies for managing clinical risk in both a national and international context and propose appropriate management strategies.
  3. Critically analyse a range of clinical risk assessment tools and discuss the appropriateness of the tool in the clinical area of students' practice.

Unit Content

  1. Principles of clinical risk management.
  2. Core concepts of disease and ageing processes which contribute to clinical risk
  3. Development, implementation and evaluation of clinical risk assessment tools.
  4. Federal Government Department of Health and Ageing key clinical risk indicators.
  5. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with clinical risk.
  6. Risk management health promotion.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be required to be familiar with utilising multiple media (including internet, weblinks, wiki's, blogs, and university e-learning) as coursework will be delivered through e-learning.

Additionally, students will be required to integrate their theoretical learning to their workplace (Work Integrated Learning) by working collaboratively with various members of their healthcare team, drawing exemplars and case studies to support their learning and authenticate assessment.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeScope of practice and clinical risk behaviours.50%
Case StudyApplying theory to practice.50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Risk in the Clinical Environment
  • Unit Code

    PSR5101
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kim OLIVER

Description

This unit will focus on the four key domains of clinical risk as articulated by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing (pressure area care, medication error, hand hygiene and falls). Students will examine core concepts about contributing disease processes, intrinsic, and extrinsic factors, that may increase individual patient's clinical risk, using exemplars and case studies from their clinical workplace to authenticate learning and assessment related to the management of risk in the clinical environment.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will involve flexible, on-line teaching and learning to integrate theory attained through this learning and applying it to their individual clinical setting to ensure authenticated assessment.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply an advanced level of theoretical knowledge of complex disease and aging processes, incorporating both intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors which may contribute to clinical risk.
  2. Critically analyse intervention and risk assessment strategies for managing clinical risk in both a national and international context and propose appropriate management strategies.
  3. Critically analyse a range of clinical risk assessment tools and discuss the appropriateness of the tool in the clinical area of students' practice.

Unit Content

  1. Principles of clinical risk management.
  2. Core concepts of disease and ageing processes which contribute to clinical risk
  3. Development, implementation and evaluation of clinical risk assessment tools.
  4. Federal Government Department of Health and Ageing key clinical risk indicators.
  5. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with clinical risk.
  6. Risk management health promotion.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be required to be familiar with utilising multiple media (including internet, weblinks, wiki's, blogs, and university e-learning) as coursework will be delivered through e-learning.

Additionally, students will be required to integrate their theoretical learning to their workplace (Work Integrated Learning) by working collaboratively with various members of their healthcare team, drawing exemplars and case studies to support their learning and authenticate assessment.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeScope of practice and clinical risk behaviours.50%
Case StudyApplying theory to practice.50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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