307483 (v.1) Professional Foundations 561

Area:

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

12.5

** 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

Clinical Practice:

1 x 8.5 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

307484 (v.1) Diagnostics 561
AND
307485 (v.1) Pharmacology 521

Syllabus:

Clinical practice and Professional portfolio development. Role of the nurse practitioner historical and contextual perspectives. Increasing the scope of practice, Professional - protocols, nurse practitioner competency standards, codes of practice. The law relating to practice as a Nurse practitioner. Professional registration and designation. Current debates on advanced practice - Autonomy and accountability and interdisciplinary collaboration. Professional communication and documentation, publication,reflectivity and critical thinking. Information access and retrieval and 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:

060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

12 - Nursing

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1				Y
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External