Overview

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Offerings

MANDURAH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in Bachelor of Nursing

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Describe the history of nursing, the professionalisation of nursing, and the inherent requirements of the contemporary nursing profession

2.

Communicate the importance of professional regulation and how professional codes, policies, frameworks guidelines, standards, and the National Law are applied in professional nursing practice

3.

Identify and explain the legal and ethical aspects of nursing and the responsibilities of registered nurses and students

4.

Establish the requirements for caring, communicating, assessing, documenting and reporting in professional nursing practice

5.

Demonstrate an understanding of the evidence based industry standards that guide safety and quality in healthcare and the frameworks that support nursing students to develop the required knowledge and skills

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Key topics in this unit include:

Historical and contemporary nursing practice

Professional eportfolios 

Reflective Practice

Caring and communication

Professional nursing codes of practice and practice standards

The nursing process, documenting and reporting

Safety and quality in health care and Patient Safety Competency Framework for Nursing students

Introduction to nursing research & evidence based inquiry

Legal aspects of nursing

Ethical aspects of nursing

The legal aspects of medication administration and medication calculation

Mandatory reporting - Child and Elder Abuse