Course Coordinator: Sue Sharrad
Phone: +61 8 8313 3643
Email: suzanne.sharrad@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Room EH3-60, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital Campus

School Office
Phone: +61 8 8313 3593
Email: nursing_preregistration@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Level 3, Eleanor Harrald Building, RAH

1	Establish an understanding of the legal and ethical issues surrounding professional nursing practice which pertains particularly to patients with mental health problems, patients with cancer or patients with special needs.
2	Discuss professional, legal and regulatory frameworks that influence the delivery of nursing care.
3	Recognise the qualities that contribute to effective leadership and teamwork in nursing.
4	Understand the importance of innovations in nursing, for example, Quality and Risk Management Programs and their impact on positive patient outcomes.
5	Further develop patient assessment skills that relate more particularly to patients with mental health problems, patients with cancer or patients with special needs.
6	Understand and relate anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology to care of patients with mental health problems, patients with cancer or patients with special needs.
7	Further develop understanding of self concept and extend an understanding of communication and delivery of psychosocial care, through the application of various techniques, to patients with mental health problems, patients with cancer and patients with special needs.
8	Develop nursing skills compliant with the ANMC standards required to provide competent care to patients in specialised settings.
9	Develop strategies that will facilitate a personal transition from student nurse to registered nurse and understand the transformation in skill acquisition and responsibility from student nurse to registered nurse.
10	Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of ongoing professional development. Construct a personal plan for the development of a professional portfolio.

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This course uses a blend of lectures, tutorials and workshops (some are delivered online) to identify situations that inform and are informed by clinical practice. The opportunity for students to recognise aspects of clinical care issues and consider these in the light of lecture material is significant. Student observations reinforce aspects of nursing theory and contribute to the wider development of the group. Differences between hospitals and other health care settings also form an educational aspect to support the lecture content.

The workload for this course requires attendance at:
• 1 x 3 hour lecture / week
• 1 x 2 hour tutorial / week
• 2 x 2 hour SLE
Non-contact hours for assessment and tutorial preparation will be 12 hours per week

Lecture	Tutorial	Clinical Skills Session	PBL Tutorial	Assessment
Health Assessment of a patient with mental health problems	Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) Assessment	Mental Health History Taking and Management	PBL Case 4 Mental Health Problem Session 1
Therapeutics – screening and early intervention	Therapeutics – social and occupational functioning	Brief Interventions; solution focussed therapies	PBL Case 4 Mental Health Problem Session 2
SA Mental Health Care Plan	Care Planning, the nursing process in mental health (scenario based)		PBL Case 4Mental Health Problem Session 3	Online Quiz
Communication and Psychosocial Care – management of a patient who is overdosing or withdrawing	Carers in mental health	Management of a patient who is overdosing or withdrawing (Bioskills Lab)	PBL Case 4 Mental Health Problem Session 4
Health Assessment of the patient with cancer	Therapeutics – psychosocial impact of living with a diagnosis of cancer		PBL Case 5 Oncology Case Session 1
Living with cancer – supportive therapies and symptom management	Culturally appropriate care - oncology	Cytotoxic safety and handling	PBL Case 5 Oncology Case Session 2
Cytotoxic safety and handling	Oncology support services	Management of the patient who has died	PBL Case 5 Oncology Case Session 3	Nursing Care Plan due
Core principles of palliative care Palliation beyond oncology	Counselling strategies for death and dying	Management of Cancer Emergencies	PBL Case 5 Oncology Case Session 4
Mid-Semester Break
Mid-Semester Break
Health assessment of the patient with special needs	Health assessment of the patient with special needs    Therapeutics & Communication and Psychosocial Care – patient with special needs		PBL Case 6 Special Needs Case Session 1
Transition to the Registered Nurse Role, Part l Transition to the Registered Nurse Role, Part ll - medications	Transition to the Registered Nurse Role, Part lll – professional standards and the development of a professional portfolio		PBL Case 6 Special Needs Case Session 2
Role of the registered nurse in influencing social policy	Self-care	Management of a code black	PBL Case 6 Special Needs Case Session 3
Leadership in Nursing			PBL Case 6 Special Needs Case Session 4	Reflective Essay due
Swot weeks				Clinical Skills portfolio due
Exam weeks				SCA (Written)

Item No.	Item		Learning Outcome(s) being addressed	Weighting
1	Online Quiz	Formative	1-4	N/A
2	Nursing Care Plan	Formative/Summative	4-7	20%
3	Reflective Essay	Summative	1-4, 9-11	20%
4	PBL Attendance	Summative	ALL	10%
5	Assessment of Clinical Skills Portfolio	Summative	8	10%
6	Structured Clinical Assessment (written)	Summative	5-8	40%

Online quiz – an online quiz to helps students gauge their progress in the course. This quiz will be hosted in MyUni


ASSESSMENT : NURSING CARE PLAN
Due Date: Monday 8 September 2014 at 1700
Weighting: 20%
Length: 2000 word equivalent

Description
You are required to construct a ‘nursing care plan’ to produce a 2000 word (equivalent) paper.
Each day in the clinical setting, students are required to organise information about their patients and apply the nursing process. This semester you will study patients with;
    • A mental health problem
    • Cancer
    • Or special needs.

In this assessment students will construct a nursing care plan for one patient with either a mental health problem, cancer or special needs. In the nursing care plan, students are required to address the following sections only; perhaps the sections can be used a subheadings for the plan.

For one of the above mentioned patient groups:
Identify three patient needs
List the nursing interventions for each need,
Justify the nursing interventions listed. The discussion that is required here should provide the rationale for the choice of the nursing intervention and be evidence based.


ASSESSMENT : REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Due Date: Monday 27 October 2014 at 1700
Weighting: 20%
Length: 1500 words

Description
You are required to complete a 1500 word paper.

In this essay you will address the issue of transitioning from the student nurse role to that of graduate nurse.

You are required to write a reflective paper on the following topic;

“All graduates of nursing courses experience some degree of culture shock as they transition from the role of student nurse to registered nurse. Discuss the factors which cause this shock and reflect on the strategies you will use to overcome it.”


ASSESSMENT : PBL ATTENDANCE
Due Date: Friday 31 October 2014
Weighting: 10%
Length: (work produced in classes)

Topic
Students will be required to sign a weekly attendance record. Attendance to PBL tutorials is compulsory and a medical certificate is required for non-attendance. An assessment of participation will be conducted, by the PBL Tutor if required.


ASSESSMENT : ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL SKILLS PORTFOLIO
Due Date: Monday 3 November 2014 at 1700
Weighting: 10%
Length: 2000 word equivalent

Description
Students will be required to attend mandatory clinical skills session in the Robin Warren Clinical Skills Laboratory or the Bioskills laboratory (please refer to weekly timetable). In these sessions students will be required to complete a worksheet which pertains to the weekly activities. In each worksheet, students will also need to document a passage of self-reflection which is no more than 100-150 words in length. These worksheets are to be used to formulate a portfolio of activities for the semester. This portfolio is to be submitted at the end of the semester for assessment. Satisfactory completion of the weekly worksheets and compulsory attendance to the sessions will earn students the allocated percentage for this assessment item.


ASSESSMENT : STRUCTURED CLINICAL ASSESSMENT (WRITTEN)
Due Date: Exam Week, date and time to be advised
Weighting: 40%
Length: 2000 word equivalent

Description
Structured Clinical Assessment – a two (2) hour written assessment of a patient scenario, which will follow the same process as conducted in PBL and include all the lecture, tutorial and PBL content of Nursing Practice 3B.

Assessments, unless otherwise stated in your Study guide, are to be submitted electronically via Assignments, using Turnitin in MyUni on the due date identified in this Study guide. Instructions for using Turnitin are supplied below.

An assessment submitted via MyUni must be submitted as a .doc, .docx or .rtf file. If submitting a PowerPoint presentation for marking, the .ppt or .pptx must be submitted as .pdf file. It is also important to submit your file under your name, such as surname.firstname. MyUni stamps all the other details against your filename once you submit your assessment.
An Assignment Coversheet must be submitted with each assessment. The coversheet should be the first page of your assessment. A word version of the Assignment Coversheet is available to download at http://health.adelaide.edu.au/nursing/current-students/. The Plagiarism Statement must be signed and dated for your assessment to be marked (please note the details stated on the Assignment Coversheet). More information on avoiding Plagiarism is available at www.adelaide.edu.au/writingcentre/plagiarism/.
If you have difficulty submitting your assignment, you can call the MyUni helpdesk from 8am to 6pm 08 8313 3335.


Using Turnitin
Go to this webpage for step-by-step instructions for submitting an assignment using Turnitin: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni/tutorials/content/Turnitin_submitting_as_a_Student.html
Turnitin is an electronic program that students can use to check that they are referencing correctly. When you submit an assignment to this program, you will receive an "originality report" and an "originality score" - these will let you know if you have accidently used the words of other authors - any areas of your work that are too close to your original resources will be highlighted. To see this report, after you have submitted your assignment, go back into the program and click on "view" - this will show you your assignment with an similar text highlighted. See http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/products/originalitycheck for more information on Originality reports.

Bear in mind that this program is very sensitive - don't worry too much if you seem to have a high originality score as the program includes quotes and references in the count. However, it is important that you check the text that is highlighted, if it is a correctly referenced quote or an item in your reference list that is highlighted then you can ignore it but if the highlighted text that isn't a quote or reference you will need to re-writing those sections in your own words.

After you have successfully submitted your assignment you will receive an email confirming that your assignment has been submitted correctly. If you do not receive this email then go back and try again. Keep hold of this email, just in case there are any issues with your assignment submission as we may need to view this email to confirm your submission date and time.

You can submit multiple times to this program - each new submission supersedes the previous, so we will only ever mark the latest version of your assignment! We encourage all students to practice with Turnitin before the final due date to make sure you know what you're doing.

A word of warning: although the program permits multiple submissions from a single student, Turnitin has a 24hour lag between assignment submissions. For example, if you submit an assignment to the program at 10am on Sunday, you may not be able to submit again until 10am MONDAY! Be very careful to avoid a situation wherein you are unable to submit the final version of your assignment until after the final deadline. Falling into the 24hr lag window will not be grounds to avoid a lateness penalty.