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School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Nursing Practice Capstone

  • Unit Code

    NPP6105

  • Year

    2027

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    5

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Aaron ALEJANDRO

Description

This final work integrated learning unit facilitates students to demonstrate nursing knowledge and skills learned throughout the course. The focus of this unit is on interprofessional practice, teamwork, prioritisation, communication and clinical leadership. Students will incorporate critical thinking and clinical reasoning in their decision-making and delivery of care to patients across the lifespan. This unit includes 320 hours (8 weeks) of clinical placement as part of the work integrated learning (WIL) component.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students may undertake practicum hours out of the standard timetable. Refer to the School of Nursing and Midwifery J46 practicum timetable

Prerequisite Rule

Nursing Practice 1,2 and 3 NPP6106, NPP6107 and NPP6108; Applied Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 1 and 2 NSC6101 and NSC6102; Recognising and Responding to Deterioration NSC6103; Fundamentals of Nursing NCS6101; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Health and Wellness NUR6107; Principles of Mental Health and Wellbeing NSC6104; Research Methods MNP6115 and Transition to Professional Practice: Leadership, Governance and Safety in Health Care NUR6100.

Only students studying in J46 can enrol into this unit

Co-Requisite Rule

Must have passed NUR6100 or study as co-requisite

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply advanced communication skills in the assessment, planning and delivery of care to patients and families within an interprofessional context.
  2. Apply clinical reasoning to deliver safe, evidence-based nursing care across the lifespan.
  3. Work collaboratively with patients and families experiencing complexity to manage acute, long term and life-threatening conditions in a range of healthcare contexts.
  4. Demonstrate competency in complex medication calculations to ensure patient safety.
  5. Demonstrate professional practice competency in accordance with the Nurse and Midwifery Board of Australia registered nurse standards for practice.

Unit Content

  1. Safe administration of medicines.
  2. Clinical handover.
  3. Interprofessional practice.
  4. Nursing guidelines, frameworks, and standards for practice.
  5. Management of aggression and situational awareness.
  6. Clinical leadership, decision making, prioritisation, and delegation.
  7. Health and wellbeing of self and others.
  8. Care of the dying patient and collaborating with families.
  9. Managing medical emergencies in a range of contexts.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Clinical placement totalling 320 hours. Pre-identified clinical placement periods may change with minimal notice to students due to circumstances outside the control of the School.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^ePortfolio
Practicum ^Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT)
Performance ^Simulated clinical practice assessment

^ Mandatory to Pass

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 Procedure - 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 Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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