Program Overview

NUR315 - Professional Practice 4: Leading Self and Others

Overview

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Offerings

The following offerings are available:

• MANDURAH-S1-FACE2FACE-2029-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Semester 1-S1
  • Location: Mandurah
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2029
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MANDURAH-S2-FACE2FACE-2026-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Semester 2-S2
  • Location: Mandurah
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2029-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Semester 1-S1
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2029
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2026-ONGOING
  • Teaching period code: Semester 2-S2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: -
  • Self enrol: Yes

Requisites

Exclusion

• NUR359: 6 cp, Professional Nursing Practice 3: Transition to Registered Nurse

Prerequisite

• NUR314: 3 cp, Work Integrated Learning 4: Complex Care
• OR
  • NUR358: 3 cp, Clinical Practice 4
  • AND
    • NUR215: 3 cp, Professional Practice 3: Developing a Professional Identity
• OR
  • NUR355: 3 cp, Professional Nursing Practice 2: Complexities

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply leadership, mentorship, and effective communication skills and knowledge required by a beginning registered nurse.
2. Develop self-awareness to understand emotional reactions in self and others, including patients, families, and colleagues.
3. Apply a Strengths-Based Nursing approach to building resilience and maintaining health and wellbeing in self and others.
4. Analyse and describe organisational behaviour and the role of the leader or manager in developing a positive organisational culture.
5. Reflect on the role of the Registered Nurse in health policy, advocating for self, others, and the profession.

Unit Content

• Advocating for self - emotional intelligence, self-awareness
• Leadership and followship - leadership versus management, types of leaders, characteristics of leaders, leadership assessment tools, developing leadership capacity
• Mentorship, preceptorship, and clinical supervision - mentoring strategies and processes
• Feedback - giving/receiving and responding to feedback from a Strengths-Based perspective, recognising strengths
• The role of the nurse in advocacy and policy - leading the profession, health reform
• Organisational culture - managing conflict, challenging situations, workplace bullying, toxic workplace culture
• Resilience - self-care

Unit Details

• Unit version: 02
• Version start date: 01/01/2026
• Owning college: College of Health and Education
• Owning school: Nursing
• Credit points: 3