精东传媒app

UniSQ Logo
The current and official versions of the course specifications are available on the web at .
Please consult the web for updates that may occur during the year.

NUR2204 Clinical Skills for Practice B

Semester 2, 2022 Ipswich On-campus
Units : 1
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences
School or Department : School of Nursing and Midwifery
Grading basis : Graded
Course fee schedule : /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules

Staffing

Examiner:

Requisites

Pre-requisite: NSC2500 and NUR2101 and NUR2102

Overview

This clinical skills-based course enables students to put theory of acute, chronic, and complex health conditions across the lifespan into practice in an authentic, simulated learning environment. Students will further develop their clinical, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning skills, preparing them to work as Registered Nurses in a dynamic, interdisciplinary health environment. This course addresses the professional body requirement for students to apply their medication management skills and theoretical knowledge in simulated scenarios.

In this course students will use an experiential learning framework to further develop their clinical skills in an authentic simulated environment. Students will apply their developing understanding of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, interdisciplinary teamwork, cultural safety, and person-centred care to engage in simulated safe, ethical nursing practice. Students consolidate high level nursing skills in communication, infection control, teamwork, safety, medication management, vital signs assessment and situational management using a range of skills and strategies for assessing, planning, managing, and evaluating individuals experiencing acute exacerbations of chronic illness, acute illnesses, and those with complex health care needs.

This course contains a mandatory residential school for external students and mandatory on-campus laboratories or practical classes for on-campus students and an ANMAC mandated medication calculations quiz.

As per the BNSG Program Rules, students are required to attempt and submit all assessment items in a course. This program rule forms part of the USQ accreditation agreement with the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Council [ANMAC].

Course learning outcomes

On completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. Apply critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills in the assessment, planning, management, evaluation, and education of individuals experiencing renal, gastrointestinal, integumentary, reproductive, and neurological dysfunction using a culturally safe, person-centred approach, and for the end of life, palliative care and cancer individuals.
  2. Apply psychomotor clinical skills learnt in the simulated environment using a variety of case studies.
  3. Communicate proficiently and in a professional manner as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team.
  4. Recognise and respond to the deteriorating patient in the simulated clinical environment.
  5. Prepare and administer medications via a variety of routes in the simulated clinical environment, through the application of medication management principles and accurate medication calculations.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Application of clinical reasoning and decision-making skills, psychomotor clinical skills, including blood management and medication management for people experiencing renal, gastrointestinal, integumentary, reproductive, and musculoskeletal dysfunction across the lifespan. 40.00
2. Application of clinical reasoning and decision-making skills, psychomotor clinical skills, and medication management for palliative care and a person at the end of life. 15.00
3. Assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of health education of a person across the lifespan. 15.00
4. Preparation and administration of medications, using accurate medication calculation formula, in a variety of forms. 30.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

Brotto, V., & Rafferty, K., (2019), Clinical dosage calculations for Australia and New Zealand, 3rd edn, Cengage.
Brown, D., Edwards, H., Seaton, L., Buckley, T. and Lewis, S., (2019), Lewis's medical-surgical nursing, 5th edn, Elsevier, Chatswood NSW.
Tollefson, J (2021), Clinical psychomotor skills: Assessment tools for nurses, 8th edn, Cengage, South Melbourne, VIC.

Student workload expectations

To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.

Assessment details

Approach Type Description Group
Assessment
Weighting (%) Course learning outcomes
Assignments Written Quiz No 10 6
Assignments Practical Practical No 10 1,2,3,4,5
Assignments Practical Laboratory skills 1 No 50 1,2,3,4,5
Assignments Practical Laboratory skills 2 No 30 1,2,3,4,5
Date printed 10 February 2023