Course Title: Professional Experience Practice 2

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Experience Practice 2

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
NURS1150	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	150H Health Sciences	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2006, Sem 1 2007, Sem 1 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 1 2012, Sem 1 2013, Sem 2 2013, Sem 1 2014, Sem 2 2014, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016
NURS1150	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	150H Health Sciences	Face-to-Face or Workplace	Sem 2 2016
NURS1150	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024
NURS1150	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Workplace	Sem 1 2017, Sem 1 2018
NURS1995	Hamilton Campus	Undergraduate	150H Health Sciences	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2006, Sem 1 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 1 2011
NURS2134	Sale Campus	Undergraduate	150H Health Sciences	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 1 2010

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
NURS1150	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	UGRDFlex21 (ZZZZ)
NURS1150	Bundoora Campus	Undergraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Face-to-Face	UGRDFlex22 (ZZZZ)

Course Coordinator: Jianxia (Lily) Zhai / Patricia Kitney

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 4202 / +61 3 9925 0542

Course Coordinator Email: Jianxia.zhai@rmit.edu.au / patricia.kitney@rmit.edu.au

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses 

Successful completion of

• NURS2092 Professional Experience Practice 1 (Course ID 030218)
• NURS1127 Principles and Practice of Nursing 2 (Course ID 010094)

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course. 

For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.

Required Concurrent Study

You should undertake following course/s at the same time as this course as it contains areas of knowledge and skills which are implemented together in practice.

• NURS2100 Medical and Surgical Nursing 1 (Course ID 034348)
• NURS2097 Mental Health Nursing and Human Development (Course ID 034321)
• ONPS2648 Therapeutics for Nursing 2 Systems Pharmacology (Course ID 053240)

Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.

Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.

Course Description

This course will consist of a supervised professional placement in a mental health or acute care clinical setting for a prescribed period of time. Students will work in the multidisciplinary healthcare team to develop beginning knowledge in acute care and/or mental health settings. Specific learning outcomes will be achieved over the period of the professional practice placement. Nursing care will be planned and implemented under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. This course will introduce the student to medication management, and how nursing care is contextualised in the management of acute and chronic disease. Students will apply the theoretical concepts learned in the courses being studied in this and the previous semester.

Attendance at the designated facility for the entire 160 hours is a mandatory requirement. Successful completion of this course cannot be achieved until you have met this requirement. If you are deemed unsafe at any time during the WIL experience, or function beyond your scope of practice, you may be removed from the health care setting and receive a fail grade for this course. You will be required to re-enrol in the course in the following year.

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability you should contact the Program Coordinator or the Equitable Learning Services for further advice. Students need to be able to meet the inherent requirements of the program.

At any time prior to or during your placement if there are concerns raised related to your fitness to practice the clinical coordinator can request that you gain full medical clearance to continue your placement.

You will be notified of specific placement details as early as possible via InPlace. The placement information is subject to change at any time up until placement, so please check your student e-mail account daily. Please note: You may have to travel up to 2 hours (one way) to attend the clinical venue allocated.

Work Integrated Learning:

Students enrolled in this course will be required to be WIL passport ready to undertake placement as part of the assessment of the course.  A number of requirements must be met by students to ensure eligibility for placement.  Further details on each of these are available in Part B of the Course Guide and on MyRMIT. 

• Police check 
• Working with Children Check 
• Annual TB screen, Influenza vaccination and STEM student immunisation form COVID vaccination certificates   
• RMIT student deed (annual requirement) 
• SHBS authorisation form  
• NDIS worker screening check  

There is no flexibility with these requirements.  It is your responsibility to ensure these requirements are completed.  Any student who has not provided this information in full by the specified date will not be able to attend placement and will receive a fail grade for the placement course. A fail grade for the course will result in a delay in your program progression. 

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course will contribute to Program Learning Outcomes for BP032 Bachelor of Nursing and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Registered Nurse Standards for Practice through the following learning outcomes:

• Standard 1: Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice
• Standard 2: Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships
• Standard 3: Maintains the capability for practice
• Standard 4: Comprehensively conducts assessments
• Standard 5: Develops a plan for nursing practice
• Standard 6: Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
• Standard 7: Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice

(Reference: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia National Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse)

On successful completion of this course you should be able to:

1. Undertake culturally relevant and age specific nursing care at a beginning level in a mental health or acute care setting with supervision and prompting from the registered nurse.
2. Demonstrate safe practice in relation to Occupational Health and Safety and risk management measures in the provision of supervised care for the acute care or mental health patient.
3. Employ effective communication skills with the clinical nursing staff and interdisciplinary healthcare team. Including recognition of reporting in a timely manner to ensure clinical or academic judgement.
4. Apply a beginning level of clinical reasoning within the context of evidence-based nursing care of acute care/mental health patients.
5. Assess, administer and evaluate pharmacological therapies under the direct supervision of the registered nurse.
6. Demonstrate the ability to effectively evaluate your nursing care against the patient care requirements.

Overview of Learning Activities

This course is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course that will be conducted in the healthcare setting. Students will be required to undertake 160 hours of supervised nursing practice in a designated clinical setting under the direct supervision of a registered nurse. As support and preparation for this WIL experience there will also be clinical preparation time allocated throughout the semester as a timetabled learning experience.

Students will actively participate in patient care as part of the health care team during all WIL experiences.

Independent Learning: In line with the professional responsibility for active life-long learning you are expected to undertake self-directed learning activities during this time to develop and consolidate knowledge obtained during the WIL experience.

The activities associated with this course are designed to enable you to apply your acute care and/or mental health clinical skills and knowledge in a supported supervised clinical setting and to recognise and work within your scope of nursing practice.

RMIT have state of the art simulated learning facilities for student learning and practice. You will participate in simulated practice within these facilities in preparation for placement. You may be filmed for learning, teaching, reflection and assessment and this is considered an inherent part of our learning and teaching program. Recordings will be maintained in accordance with our assessment, document retention and privacy policies.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course. 

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.

Overview of Assessment

All assessments are required to be completed for a pass mark in this course. This clinical course awards a pass or fail mark.

This course contains hurdle requirements. All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

Hurdle requirements are required in order to provide evidence of competency to the accrediting organisation the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC)

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Professional Placement Passport documentation requirements 
Professional Placement Passport documentations are required for students to be eligible to attend clinical placement.
Satisfactory Pass (PX) / Unsatisfactory (NH) (HURDLE) 
This assessment task supports CLO 2

Assessment Task 2: 160 hours of this Professional Experience Placement and the completion of a formative (interim) and summative (final) Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT)
Satisfactory Pass (PX) / Unsatisfactory Fail (NN) (HURDLE)
This Assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

Assessment Task 3: Supervised Laboratory Practice attendance and Completion of Medication Calculation Certificates 
Satisfactory Pass (PX) / Unsatisfactory (NH) (HURDLE)
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.