Key facts
UNE unit code: HSNS171
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- Trimester 1 - On Campus
- Trimester 1 - Online
- Armidale Campus
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- 6
Unit information
To meet the fundamental care needs of patients across the lifespan in dynamic healthcare settings, your practical skills and your ability to communicate effectively with diverse colleagues, patients and their families are of critical importance.
This unit offers an opportunity to build professional relationships and essential nursing skills through hands-on experience during 80 hours of professional experience placement (PEP). A range of individual and collaborative learning experiences will help you to reflect on your performance throughout the unit.
Focusing on practice skills relating to health and physical assessment, you will obtain patient-centred health information.
Integrating your knowledge and skills in safe manual handling, you will also work to enhance patient safety through activities of daily living.
Offerings
For further information about UNE's teaching periods, please go to Principal Dates.
| Teaching period | Mode/location |
|---|---|
| Trimester 1 | On Campus, Armidale Campus |
| Trimester 1 | Online |
*Offering is subject to availability
Intensive schools
| Start | Finish | Duration | Attendance | Offerings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | TBA | 3 days | Mandatory Intensive School | Trimester 1, Online | Mandatory on campus intensive school. Dates to be advised |
Enrolment rules
Notes
This unit includes 80 hours of professional experience placement.
Professional experience placements will only proceed for students who meet pre-clinical requirements in the first eight weeks of their enrolment in the course and maintain the currency of these requirements throughout the duration of the course.
Please refer to the student handbook for current details on this unit.
Unit coordinator(s)
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- demonstrate the ability to meet the hygiene, nutrition and elimination, mobility and comfort needs of patients with varying needs of dependence safely and within the scope of practice;
- obtain a basic health history and conduct general physical assessment demonstrating ability to take vital signs, pain assessment, blood glucose levels, urinalysis, height and weight measurement; waist circumference across the lifespan and communicate and document findings;
- interpret health information on patients' health assessment including digital information to identify and effectively communicate abnormal findings to others within legal, ethical and scope of practice requirements;
- reflect upon professional experience placement (PEP) and participation in individual and collaborative learning experiences; and
- understand and apply the principles of infection control to theoretical, simulated, and professional experience placement (PEP) environments.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
| Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 | Yes | 5% | All offerings | Participation for learning Attendance at a minimum of eight (8) of the weekly 2-hour workshops and eight (8) of the weekly scheduled laboratories/tutorials over the trimester OR 100% attendance at the intensive school is required to pass the unit. Students will receive a mark of Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory against this assessment. *Any breach of 100% attendance will require documented evidence and make-up activities. Must pass this assessment item to pass the unit. |
| Assessment 2 | Yes | 35% | All offerings | Clinical Competence Assessment (CCA) Patient assessment Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory: Compulsory satisfactory to pass the unit Must pass this assessment item to progress to Professional Experience Placement (PEP). |
| Assessment 3 | Yes | All offerings | Professional Experience Placement (PEP) Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory: Compulsory satisfactory to pass the unit Successful completion of 80 hours of Professional Experience Placement (PEP) Must pass this assessment item to pass the unit. | |
| Assessment 4 | Yes | 60% | All offerings | Professional Practice Project No. Words: 1500 Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory: Compulsory satisfactory to pass the unit |
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Clinical Psychomotor Skills (5 Point) Assessment Tools for Nurses
ISBN: 9780170452649
Tollefson, J. and Hillman, E., Cengage Learning 8th ed. 2021
Text refers to: All offerings
Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing V. 1-3
ISBN: 9781488626593
Berman, A. and others, Pearson Education 5th ed. 2020
Text refers to: All offerings
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