HNN325 - Quality and Safety: Comprehensive Nursing Practice

Year:

2027 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong)
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Community Based Delivery (CBD)*, Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong)

Credit point(s): 2
EFTSL value: 0.250
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in D355, D381, D387, H326, H329
Previously: Comprehensive Nursing Practice
Campus contact:

Trimester 1:
Waterfront: Claire Crossfield

Trimester 2:
Melbourne Burwood: Meg Pollock
Warrnambool: Karyn Bentley

Prerequisite:

For course H329: HNN215, HNN217, HNN222 HNN227, HNN318, HNN321 and HNN329 

For courses D381, D387: HNN215, HNN217, HNN222, HNN227, HNN318 and HNN329

For course D355: HNN215, HNN217, HNN222, HNN227, HNN318, HNN329 and one of HNM311 or HNM331

For course H326: Must pass all level 1 and 2 core units and HNN318, HNN329 and 2 elective credit points.

Note: Enrolled and/or Internationally qualified nurses may have altered prerequisite requirements. If required, course advice can be sought from health@deakin.edu.au

Corequisite:

HNN301 and HNN320

Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment:

Students will spend on average 300 hours over the trimester undertaking synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning activities for this unit.

This will include 20 hours synchronous learning activities and a 200-hour professional experience placement. Students will spend 12 hours undertaking guided asynchronous learning activities.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar per week 
1 x 2 hour on-campus simulation per week 
200 hours of Professional Experience Placement (PEP)

Content

This is a capstone unit and is the final unit in the Clinical Studies Cluster. In this unit students are provided with the opportunity to consolidate and extend knowledge and skills and apply them to a variety of situations.

Students will further develop skills in advanced communication techniques for safe and quality care, prioritisation of care, responding to patient deterioration, and managing patient symptoms.

During a five (5) week Professional Experience Placement students will have the opportunity to further develop and apply relevant knowledge and skills learned in this unit and all previous units in preparation to practice as a registered nurse in a variety of health care settings.

Unit fee information

Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.

Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.

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Commonwealth Prac Payment

From 1 July 2025, the Australian Government is intending to introduce the Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP) to assist eligible students with costs related to mandatory placements in higher education courses for teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work.

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