Program Overview

NUR2204 Clinical Skills for Practice B

Course Details

• Units: 1
• School or Department: School of Nursing and Midwifery
• Grading basis: Graded
• Course fee schedule: Not specified

Requisites

Pre-requisite: NSC2500 and NUR2101 and NUR2102

Overview

This clinical skills-based course enables students to put theory of acute, chronic, and complex health conditions across the lifespan into practice in an authentic, simulated learning environment. Students will further develop their clinical, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning skills, preparing them to work as Registered Nurses in a dynamic, interdisciplinary health environment. This course addresses the professional body requirement for students to apply their medication management skills and theoretical knowledge in simulated scenarios.

Course Content

In this course, students will use an experiential learning framework to further develop their clinical skills in an authentic simulated environment. Students will apply their developing understanding of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, interdisciplinary teamwork, cultural safety, and person-centred care to engage in simulated safe, ethical nursing practice. Students consolidate high-level nursing skills in communication, infection control, teamwork, safety, medication management, vital signs assessment, and situational management using a range of skills and strategies for assessing, planning, managing, and evaluating individuals experiencing acute exacerbations of chronic illness, acute illnesses, and those with complex healthcare needs.

Assessment and Requirements

• This course contains a mandatory residential school for external students and mandatory on-campus laboratories or practical classes for on-campus students.
• All students must pass the clinical skills assessment to pass the course overall. Each student will be offered two attempts at the clinical skills assessment.
• Students will have an ANMAC mandated medication calculations quiz, that all students must attain a result of 100% to pass this course overall. Each student will be offered three attempts at the medication calculation quiz.
• As per the BNSG Program Rules, students are required to attempt and submit all assessment items in a course.

Course Offers

• Study period: Semester 1, 2023; Semester 2, 2023
• Mode: On-campus, External
• Campus: Ipswich, Toowoomba

Acknowledgement

The University of Southern Queensland acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways where the University is located. Further, we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present, and future.