School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Transition to Nurse Practitioner Practice
  • Unit Code

    MNP6106
  • Year

    2026
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nilufeur MCKAY

Description

As clinical leaders, nurse practitioners are expected to critically appraise current healthcare resources and improve healthcare access for all. This unit is designed to enable the student to consolidate and apply their theoretical knowledge to the clinical environment. The unit will facilitate the student to synthesise their learning and demonstrate their capability to transition to practice as a nurse practitioner.

Prerequisite Rule

NSP6106 or NSP6104

Only students studying course L88 can enrol in this unit. Must have completed all units except last unit and prac unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Synthesize data to inform priorities necessary to enhance healthcare outcomes.
  2. Justify the value of the nurse practitioner within the healthcare industry to meet the needs of the patient population.
  3. Apply leadership principles to enhance healthcare delivery and advocate for the nursing profession.
  4. Critically appraise the extended practice capabilities of the nurse practitioner in transitioning to practice.

Unit Content

  1. Examples of Nurse Practitioner service models highlighting patient outcomes and cost effectiveness.
  2. Global and national advancements in the nurse practitioner role.
  3. Leadership and healthcare policy in current healthcare environments.
  4. Analysis of health system data to address gaps in service provision.
  5. Nurse Practitioner professional standards, legal frameworks and legislation.
  6. Preparation for endorsement as a nurse practitioner.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

An optional on campus workshop will be held at the beginning of the unit in collaboration with the School of Business and Law to share NP practice model ideas and student networking. Online attendance to the workshop is facilitated..

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentNurse practitioner service model40%
PortfolioPreparation for endorsement60%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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