NRS379 Discipline of Nursing 4: Transition to Professional Nursing Practice (8)
Abstract| This subject fosters the development of an understanding of the role, responsibilities and scope of practice of a registered nurse in contemporary Australia. This subject 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. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
| Session 1 | | Distance* | Bathurst Campus | Session 2 | | Internal | Albury-Wodonga Campus | | Internal | Bathurst Campus | | Internal | Dubbo Campus | | Internal | Wagga Wagga Campus | | Distance* | Bathurst Campus |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: NRS379
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | HD/FL | School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health |
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| Prerequisite(s) | Incompatible subject(s) |
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| (NRS293 and NRS294 and NRS381 and NRS375 and NRS376 and BMS292) or (NRS346 and NRS352 and NRS353 and BMS292) | NRS365 NRS389 |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
1. be able to practice at a competent beginning Registered Nurse 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 interprofessional relationships.
2. be able to meet the ANMC competencies for Registered Nurses.
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 Registered Nurse.
14. be able to reflect and evaluate 'self' in practice. |
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SyllabusThe 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 Registered nurse
(i) Scope of practice
(ii) Using reflection and evidence in practice
(iii) Interprofessional relationships
* Working in teams
* Leadership
* Preceptorship and student supervision
* Conflict resolution
* Nurse as teacher/educator and nurse as leader
(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 |
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Residential School| This subject contains a compulsory 1 day residential school.
Relevant lectures, tutorials, practical classes and/or assessment activities.
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
