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HEANP7005 - Comprehensive and Safe Patient Care
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<p>Students will consolidate their breadth and depth of knowledge and skills enabling a comprehensive understanding of the role of the nurse practitioner in providing safe and quality health care, and the importance of a strong business case for change. Students will explore the delivery of health care in complex and varied situations including factors associated with socioeconomics, personal preferences, choices and self-determination, psychosocial impacts and access to services. Students will also further their knowledge about population health, health care gaps, and epidemiology, considering the impact nurse practitioners can have on informing health policy. Students will demonstrate their ability to plan and manage person centred, evidence-based healthcare in their context of advanced clinical practice. In particular, attention will be drawn to the collaborative and sometimes complex interdisciplinary relationships involved with health care delivery. Students are required to maintain a portfolio (log) of their reflections of professional knowledge, practice developments and collaborative practice throughout their 50 hours of interprofessional practice</p>
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<p><em>The ANMAC Nurse Practitioner Accreditation Standards (2015); The NMBA Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice (2021); NMBA Code of Conduct for Nurses (2018) and Code of Ethics for Nurses (2018), Safety and Quality Guidelines for Nurse Practitioner (2021); National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017-19); Aged Care Quality Standards (2021), National Digital Health Framework (2021; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2020) and National Prescribing Competencies Framework (2021) have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this course.</em></p>
<p>Topics may include:</p>
<p>1.History taking and comprehensive health assessment for complex, person-centred care across the lifespan</p>
<p>2.Ethically sound diagnostic reasoning principles for complex clinical settings</p>
<p>3.Cultural safety and health management principles</p>
<p>4.Health promotion and education strategies</p>
<p>5.Use of technologies to assist with health care</p>
<p>6.Health care priorities in Australia</p>
<p>7.Population health, health care gaps, epidemiology and the impact of environmental risk and societal processes on health care decisions</p>
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<p>Students will consolidate their breadth and depth of knowledge and skills enabling a comprehensive understanding of the role of the nurse practitioner in providing safe and quality health care, and the importance of a strong business case for change. Students will explore the delivery of health care in complex and varied situations including factors associated with socioeconomics, personal preferences, choices and self-determination, psychosocial impacts and access to services. Students will also further their knowledge about population health, health care gaps, and epidemiology, considering the impact nurse practitioners can have on informing health policy. Students will demonstrate their ability to plan and manage person centred, evidence-based healthcare in their context of advanced clinical practice. In particular, attention will be drawn to the collaborative and sometimes complex interdisciplinary relationships involved with health care delivery. Students are required to maintain a portfolio (log) of their reflections of professional knowledge, practice developments and collaborative practice throughout their 50 hours of interprofessional practice</p>
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<p><em>The ANMAC Nurse Practitioner Accreditation Standards (2015); The NMBA Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice (2021); NMBA Code of Conduct for Nurses (2018) and Code of Ethics for Nurses (2018), Safety and Quality Guidelines for Nurse Practitioner (2021); National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017-19); Aged Care Quality Standards (2021), National Digital Health Framework (2021; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2020) and National Prescribing Competencies Framework (2021) have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this course.</em></p> <p>Topics may include:</p> <p>1.History taking and comprehensive health assessment for complex, person-centred care across the lifespan</p> <p>2.Ethically sound diagnostic reasoning principles for complex clinical settings</p> <p>3.Cultural safety and health management principles</p> <p>4.Health promotion and education strategies</p> <p>5.Use of technologies to assist with health care</p> <p>6.Health care priorities in Australia</p> <p>7.Population health, health care gaps, epidemiology and the impact of environmental risk and societal processes on health care decisions</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Nursing
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
060399 - Nursing, n.e.c.
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>Blended Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p><p>Blended Delivery - Gippsland (Blended)</p><p>Blended Delivery - Mt Helen (Blended)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
Yes
Placement hours:
50
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/heanp7005">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
<p> must have completed <a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=HEANP7002" target="_blank">HEANP7002</a>/<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=HEANP7003" target="_blank">HEANP7003</a></p>
Corequisite
None
Exclusion
None
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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K1
<p>Demonstrate how Nurse Practitioner practice supports individual preferences, choices and self-determination across the lifespan</p>
K2
<p>Examine the role of collaborative practice in the context of the Nurse Practitioner role</p>
K3
<p>Analyse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' histories considering how these may impact on planning health and wellness strategies in a culturally safe way</p>
S1
<p>Examine the role of the Nurse Practitioner in clinical, political and professional contexts</p>
S2
<p>Articulate the role of the Nurse Practitioner in maintaining quality and safe patient care across the lifespan in socioeconomic and geographically diverse settings</p>
S3
<p>Establish the key components of a business case to support change</p>
A1
<p>Demonstrate the use of diagnostics based upon an ethically sound approach</p>
A2
<p>Engage in culturally safe health assessments and health care planning</p>
A3
<p>Apply epidemiological concepts to the planning and prioritisation of health care</p>
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<p>Provide a convincing business case to promote NP role opportunities</p>
<p>Written essay</p>
<p>40-50</p>
S1, S2, S3, A3
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<p>Viva voce clinical assessment with an examination panel (at least 2)</p>
<p>Oral viva voce clinical case study</p>
<p>50-60</p>
K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2
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<p>Clinical interprofessional practice (50 hours)</p>
<p>Clinical interprofessional practice assessment</p>
<p>S/U</p>
K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2
Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Nursing
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
060399 - Nursing, n.e.c.
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>Blended Delivery - Berwick (Blended)</p><p>Blended Delivery - Gippsland (Blended)</p><p>Blended Delivery - Mt Helen (Blended)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
Yes
Placement hours:
50
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/heanp7005">View unit fees</a>
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