NURS1027A Nursing Practice and Professional Placement 1

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Overview

This topic focuses on preparation for placement where nursing skills, attitudes and attributes support safe provision of patient-centred care utilising the Fundamentals of Care Framework. This topic will allow students to apply their skills and knowledge in communication, assessment, and documentation in a clinical setting and to gain an understanding … For more content click the Read More button below.

This topic focuses on preparation for placement where nursing skills, attitudes and attributes support safe provision of patient-centred care utilising the Fundamentals of Care Framework. This topic will allow students to apply their skills and knowledge in communication, assessment, and documentation in a clinical setting and to gain an understanding of the role of a first-year student nurse on placement. The focus for this topic is maintaining wellness through therapeutic communication, risk assessment and support with activities of daily living.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

Allow students to examine how anatomy, physiology and microbiology knowledge informs patient centred care within a Fundamentals of Care Framework
Provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate appropriate clinical skills (including therapeutic and professional communication) and expected knowledge in clinical practice

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

Demonstrate skills, knowledge and attitudes required to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Registered Nurse Standards for Practice at the expected level for a first year, second semester student

Apply the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the person centred care needed to support activities of daily living within the fundamentals of care framework

Attain competency in numeracy and basic calculations to inform safe medication management

Prepare for and engage in professional behaviours including, but not limited to, pre-placement clinical preparation

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Nursing Practice and Professional Placement 1

NURS1027A