Course Title: Transition to Nursing Practice

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Transition to Nursing Practice

Credit Points: 12.00


Course Coordinator: TBC

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: @rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses

Successful completion of the following courses:

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.

For information go to RMIT Course Requisites


Course Description

This course provides you with a capstone experience, which will give you the opportunity to integrate, critically reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt in your program. In this course you will explore and practice elements of care coordination, patient education, peer mentoring and leadership. Drawing on the theoretical and practice elements of the program and design thinking for innovation, you will demonstrate capstone capabilities through an individual practice development or mentoring project. This co-developed project will enable you to identify a problem in practice and design and apply an evidence-based response that may be shared with internal and clinical stakeholders. Students will work in a supervision model with academic or selected clinical staff to develop their project demonstrating appropriate time management, leadership and communication skills. 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the program learning outcomes for the following program:  

BP032P24 Bachelor of Nursing   

PLO1. Demonstrate a breadth and depth of nursing knowledge and concepts in a variety of real-world settings using an evidence-based approach   

PLO2. Apply evidence-based nursing knowledge to conceptualise and deliver safe and effective practice in a variety of contexts, independently and collaboratively, using emerging technological advancements  

PLO3. Generate and evaluate solutions to all aspects of interprofessional nursing practice while complying with ethical, legal, and regulatory standards  

PLO4.   Communicate to diverse audiences employing integrity, inclusivity, and culturally safe practices to deliver quality patient care.  

PLO5. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for professional decisions through critical thinking and reflection to resolve challenges as part of a multidisciplinary and interprofessional team  

PLO6. Evaluate and critically reflect on the concepts of reconciliation and cultural intelligence considering the experience and perspectives of health and wellbeing for First Nations people.  

PLO7. Demonstrate professionalism through lifelong learning to deliver safe, quality, holistic, and person-centred nursing care.  

PLO8. Examine and evaluate theories fundamental to lifespan development and practices that enhance lifespan transition, disability, and public health advocacy. 


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:  

  1. Apply and effectively utilise evidence-based practice in a capstone project. 
  2. Apply theories of design thinking, leadership, communication, and teamwork to plan and deliver a capstone project. 
  3. Analyse options for the capstone project according to the stakeholder requirements. 
  4. Plan and implement a specific project managing communication, documentation and time management. 
  5. Critically examine and reflectively evaluate one's own performance and nursing practice to a diverse population 


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both. 

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course Site. 

This course is a capstone project that will be undertaken as an individual project plan. You will identify a problem or opportunity that is related to the standards for practice of a Registered Nurse and create a project proposal using a provided template. You will need to recognise and access the evidence required to create an intervention and then manage time and priorities to participate or produce the intervention and evaluate their own performance. The course may utilise the simulated health environment, as well as a selected group of stakeholders permitted activities. 


Overview of Learning Resources

This course will use a range of learning activities including virtual and face to face lectorial, discussions and self-directed learning. Throughout the course you will be able to work both independently and in groups to aid development of your theoretical knowledge and its application to capstone project. 

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course Site. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal. 


Overview of Assessment

Assessment Tasks 

Assessment Task 1 

Project plan 20% 

This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 

 

Assessment Task 2 

Project research synopsis 20% 

This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 

 

Assessment Task 3 

Report of project that may be written or performative or both 50% 

This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 

 

Assessment Task 4  

Reflective evaluation of project performance 10% 

This assessment task supports CLOs 5 

 

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the course coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.