NS6040 - Clinical Governance Project

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

Available ONLY to students enrolled in the Doctor of Nursing Sciences and Doctor of Nursing Studies

This subject provides the student with the opportunity to design and develop a project (policy, teaching package, risk management or quality improvement project, evidence-based research project) which can be used to improve patient care and explore an in-depth area of interest within a chosen specialty. The student will explore the elements of clinical governance in a contemporary health care environment. The students learning is thus extended and applied to addressing nursing problems related to a clinical setting. The topic for the major assignment is negotiated with the subject coordinator. The project should be original and clinically focused and related to the students work setting.

Learning Outcomes

• design a clinically focused project using evidence-based research skills;
• further develop critical thinking, reflective and analytical skills;
• demonstrate the ability to design a project that addresses an identified clinical problem relating to a specialist nursing care environment.

Graduate Qualities

• 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 generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

NS5230

Availabilities
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Dr Lee Stewart
Lecturers:	Dr Ann Bonner, jc159085.
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	assignments.
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Dr Lee Stewart
Lecturer:	Dr Ann Bonner.
Contact hours:	45 hours - Students work through a printed study module
Assessment:	assignments.

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.