NS5905 - Professional Issues for Nurse Practitioners

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
Administered by:	School of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition

Available to students enrolled in Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner)

This subject provides theoretical knowledge associated with the advanced and extended scope of practice provided by Nurse Practitioners. It will examine issues that impact on the professional attributes required for effective practice. Students will explore the features of advanced practice within a nursing paradigm, examine legal and ethical issues pertaining to nurses working in private and interdependent practice, and investigate health polocies and politics relevant to advanced practice. Students will also have the opportunity to refine reflective practice skills to incorporate into their own specialty field of practice.

Learning Outcomes

• develop knowledge, skills and professional attributes required for safe and effective practice as a Nurse Practitioner.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Mrs Joanne Tollefson
Lecturer:	jc159085.
Contact hours:	0 hours - External mode. Total workload for this subject is 150 hours. This indicates a workload of about 10 hours per week. This time is divided between reading the study guide and recommended readings, and completing the activities. Additional time needs to be set aside for assignments (approx. 6 hours for every 500 words of assignments)
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU and Printed materials
Assessment:	assignments (50%); written assignment to investigate interdisciplinary collaboration (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.