307483 (v.1) Professional Foundations 561


Area:

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

Historical/contextual perspectives of Nurse Practitioner role. Scope of practice, policies, protocols, professional guidelines, competency standards, codes of practice. Nurse Practitioner statutes/regulations. Professional registration. Law, ethics, cultural security, social justice. Management, organisational structure, interdisciplinary collaboration. Professional communication, publication, reflectivity, critical thinking. Information access/retrieval, nursing informatics.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

60300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

1

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Not Online

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y    
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area