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NRS429 Discipline of Nursing: Transition to Professional Practice (8)

CSU Discipline Area: Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health (NRMIH)

Duration: One sesssion

Abstract:

This subject fosters the development of an understanding of the role, responsibilities and scope of practice of an RN in contemporary Canada. This course will examine a broad range of contemporary issues and trends that impact on nurses and nursing within the primary health care context.  Engagement in complicated, often stressful and distressing encounters requires the nurse to be equipped with a sophisticated repertoire of skills, including ‘awareness’ of self and others. Effective intervention from a variety of perspectives is part of the essential role of the professional nurse. Emphasis will be placed on strategies to improve interaction, transition to practice, and coping with individuals, families across the lifespan, and other health care professionals.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations

No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2013.Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details prior to contacting their course coordinator: NRS429

Where differences exist between the handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Assumed Knowledge:

NRS304 and NRS306 and NRS308 and NRS426

Enrolment restrictions:

Enrolment in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

  1. be able to practice at a competent beginning RN level, delivering reflective, evidence based, culturally safe primary health care nursing in the context of the power, policy and politics in everyday practice and in inter-professional relationships.
  2. be able to meet the CNO competencies for an RN.
  3. be able to critically analyse and apply the values and principles of social justice and equity in health care.
  4. be able to apply and evaluate evidence for best practice in nursing.
  5. be able to apply and evaluate planning, problem solving and decision making in the context of nursing.
  6. be able to apply and evaluate critical thinking and reflection in the context of nursing.
  7. be able to work collaboratively in a nursing and inter-professional health care team in a variety of settings.
  8. be able to apply, with minimal direction, interpersonal and therapeutic communication skills in a variety of health care settings.
  9. be able to apply the principles of effective oral presentation skills in a variety of formal group settings.
  10. be able to safely complete, with minimal supervision, the nursing documentation required in a variety of health care settings.
  11. be able to demonstrate consistent application of formal writing skills and evidence of critical thinking, in a variety of genres.
  12. be able to use technology expertly to aid research and present information in a professional manner, consistent with organisational requirements.
  13. be able to demonstrate skills in the generic and professional attributes of the RN.
  14. be able to reflect and evaluate ‘self’ in practice.

Syllabus:

The subject will cover the following topics:

1.       Practice within the Primary Health Care context:  Deliver care that is safe, culturally appropriate, evidence-based and reflective.

          (a)      Transitioning from student to RN

                   (i)       Scope of practice
          (ii)      Using reflection and evidence in practice
          (iii)     Inter-professional relationships

             ·             Working in teams
·         Leadership
·              Preceptorship and student supervision
·              Conflict resolution

(iv)     Ethico–legal practice
(v)      Managing ‘self’

·               Self-awareness:  coping with change, conflict and people, stress management; personal risk management

·               Workload management:  priorities of care and decision making, work/life balance, managing shiftwork

                   (vi)     Organisational factors

·                Culture
·           Clinical governance
·                Resource management (human, material and financial)
·                Policy development

Residential School

This subject contains a compulsory 3 day residential school.

For students studying by distance education there is a 3 day compulsory residential school

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The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.