James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

NS5205:06

Independent Project

External HECS Band 1

Semester 1 and 2.

Students must be enrolled in the Master of Advanced Nursing Practice.

In this subject students are offered the opportunity to conduct a project of relevance to their clinical specialty in nursing. The aim of this project is to contribute to addressing identified practice issues. The project should be original and clinically orientated, and requires the integration of knowledge from clinical and theoretical subjects as well as the students’ clinical experience.

Learning Objectives:

  1. further develop their research, critical reflective and analytical skills;
  2. demonstrate the ability to design a project that addresses an identified clinical problem related to specialist nursing care in the current health context;
  3. implement a clinically-focussed project;
  4. apply evidence-based nursing research skills to the evaluation of project outcomes;
  5. demonstrate the ability to present the project as a clearly formulated report of publishable standard.

On-course assessment (100%) to include written and oral presentation.