NS4223 - Preparation for Nursing Practice

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition

This subject has been designed to prepare the student for the transition from undergraduate student to professional registered nurse. The students are introduced to basic principles of management, leadership and working within the multidisciplinary team.

Learning Outcomes

• contribute effectively to group processes within the workplace;
• critically analyse the process of transition from student to novice RN;
• discuss quality improvement functions as components of the nurses responsibility to the profession and to the organisation;
• display the ability to integrate a number of leadership and management strategies into the novice RN role;
• identify key issues associated with seeking and obtaining employment as an RN.

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 ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• 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 work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Prerequisites:	NS4004
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	NS3223

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Face to face teaching (Dates to be advised)
Coordinator:	Ms Karyn Bentley, Ms Marie Bodak
Contact hours:	80 hours professional experience
Assessment:	.

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.