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School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Nursing Practice 1

  • Unit Code

    NPP6106

  • Year

    2027

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Laura HYNES

Description

This first work integrated learning unit provides students with foundational knowledge, skills, and competencies essential for delivering evidence-based nursing care within legal and ethical frameworks. Through collaborative learning, students will engage in interprofessional team environments across diverse healthcare settings, developing the critical thinking and practical capabilities necessary for the care of patients across the lifespan. WIL of 80 hours (2 weeks) of clinical placement.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

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

Co-Requisite Rule

Only students studying in J46 can enrol in this unit and unit must be studied concurrently with Applied Pathophysiology and Pharmacology1 NSC6101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NPP6101.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine the physical and psychosocial impact of altered versus normal health on individuals and communities to address identified health needs.
  2. Conduct a culturally competent nursing health assessment, applying interprofessional communication and collaboration skills to build therapeutic relationships.
  3. Apply clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate safe nursing care that is responsive to patient needs across the lifespan.
  4. Integrate competency in fundamental evidence-based nursing interventions to promote patient safety.

Unit Content

  1. Responses to health and illness - physical and psychosocial impact of altered health across the lifespan.
  2. Communication in clinical practice – handover and documentation.
  3. Health assessment, clinical reasoning across the lifespan.
  4. Fundamental clinical skills and nursing care.
  5. Medication safety and administration.
  6. Reciprocal peer learning.
  7. Interprofessional collaboration and person-centred care.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to complete clinical placement totalling 80 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 ^Simulation 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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