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Nursing (Pre-Registration)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

No.

Course learning outcome

Graduate quality

Graduate quality

Graduate quality

Graduate quality

1

Critically question ideas and assumptions, appraise research evidence, and exercise clinical knowledge and judgement, in implementing nursing care.

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Depth of disciplinary expertise

Information and Digital literacy

Inventiveness

2

Demonstrate skills to access, appraise, interpret, apply and evaluate information from a range of knowledges for person-centred nursing practice.

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Information and Digital literacy

Integrated professional, ethical and personal identity

Communication (oral and written)

3

Demonstrate responsibility, accountability, and leadership in nursing practice through creative personal, professional and intellectual autonomy showing respectful partnership with people and their communities.

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Communication (oral and written)

Influence

Cultural Competence

Integrated professional, ethical and personal identity

4

Identify, examine, reflect on, apply and communicate nursing knowledge in the holistic nursing care of people across the lifespan.

Depth of disciplinary expertise

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Influence

Communication (oral and written)

5

Work within professional, legal and ethical  frameworks to deliver safe, quality care. 

Integrated professional, ethical and personal identity

Communication (oral and written)

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Depth of disciplinary expertise

6

Engage in interprofessional learning and apply nursing knowledge to multidisciplinary approaches for collaborative practice across disciplinary and professional contexts.

Interdisciplinary effectiveness

Information and Digital literacy

Communication (oral and written)

Influence

7

Demonstrate awareness of own values and worldview in exploring the culture, values, and worldviews of others, for authentic, culturally safe and person-centred nursing practice.

Cultural competence

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Integrated professional, ethical and personal identity

Influence

8

Critically examine the social, political, economic environmental and global determinants of sustainable healthcare, and understand their impacts on nursing practice and partnering in care.

Depth of disciplinary expertise

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Interdisciplinary effectiveness

Influence

9

Appraise various forms of communication to effectively convey knowledge and meaning, and demonstrate respectful engagement for shared decision-making.

Communication (oral and written)

Interdisciplinary effectiveness

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Information and Digital literacy

10

Demonstrate and promote decolonising approaches to nursing practice that challenge racism and power imbalances for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within Australian healthcare contexts.

Cultural Competence

Influence

Critical thinking and Problem solving