UNIT CODE: NURS13144 UNIT TITLE: Preparation for practice as a Registered Nurse Assessment Two Short Answer Responses Type: Written Assessment Short Answer Responses Due date: 4pm (AEST) Tuesday 3^rd October 2023 (Week 12) Weighting: 50% Length: 1600 words (10%) Unit Coordinators: Natalie Browning and Chanchal Kurup Course Learning Outcomes Assessed

1. Identify transitional challenges that you may experience in your transition from student to registered nurse and explain the skills and strategies you may require to manage this transition
2. Explore power differentials that can exist within healthcare organisations and the tensions that may arise from these
3. Identify leadership roles undertaken by graduate registered nurses and discuss the skills required to undertake these roles
4. Analyse how the knowledge of governance systems can support the graduate registered nurse to provide safe patient care

Aim This assessment asks you to consider four different aspects of transitioning from a student nurse to a Registered Nurse: transitional challenges, power differentials, leadership, and clinical governance. Instructions This assessment functions as a choose your own adventure. Each question provides multiple options; you need to choose one option to respond to for each question. Each question requires a short response of approximately 400 words ( 10%), for a total of 1600 words. Please include all four responses in a single Microsoft Word document, ensuring that each question is written in full with your chosen topic clearly identified followed by your response. 1) Transitional challenges are commonly encountered by many new graduate Registered Nurses. Choose one of the transitional challenges below and outline two skills or strategies you could use/implement to successfully navigate the chosen transitional challenge as a graduate registered nurse in the Australian healthcare setting. (400 words)

1. Role transition (e.g. from student to RN, AIN to RN, or EN to RN).
2. Adapting to the organisational culture of the ward/unit/facility
3. Joining a team
4. Time management

2) Choose one of the examples provided below. Briefly outline the perceived power differential and discuss how this could impact the patient care provided by the graduate registered nurse (400 words)

1. A graduate registered nurse needs to delegate a task to a very experienced enrolled nurse
2. A graduate registered nurse needs to talk to the nurse unit manager about the upcoming roster, which has the graduate registered nurse working ten eight-hour shifts in a row.
3. A graduate registered nurse is preceptoring a second-year nursing student and needs to talk to them about their underperformance.
4. A graduate registered nurse asks a much older assistant-in-nursing to help with a hoist transfer. The assistant-in-nursing refuses and tells the graduate registered nurse to do the hoist transfer alone.

3) Choose one of the advanced nursing roles below. Discuss two leadership skills you can develop as a graduate registered nurse which will help to prepare you for the chosen advanced nursing role (400 words)

1. Clinical nurse consultant/specialist
2. Nurse unit manager

1. Director of nursing of a rural hospital
2. Nurse educator
3. Nurse practitioner

4) Choose one of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards listed below. Analyse how you as a new graduate registered nurse could use one aspect of this Standard to improve patient care in a specific patient context (e.g. orthopaedic ward, residential aged care facility, child health nursing service, remote health clinic etc.). The importance of the chosen NSQHS standard for the specific patient context must be justified (400 words)

1. Preventing and controlling Infections
2. Medication safety
3. Comprehensive care
4. Blood management
5. Recognising and responding to acute deterioration

Literature and references In this assessment use at least 5 references from relevant, high-quality and contemporary journal articles (Requirements 1. Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman or similar, with 2.0 line spacing and 2.54 cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).

1. Include a title page with your name, student number, unit code and name, names of unit coordinators, due date, date submitted, and word count of each question.
2. Include page numbers on each page in a footer.
3. You may write in the first-person perspective.
4. Use formal academic language.
5. Do not use dot points or bullet points.
6. Clearly identify which topic you have chosen for each question.
7. Use Australian spelling and language conventions (e.g. organisation).
8. Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.
9. An introduction, conclusion, and table of contents are not required.
10. The word count is considered for each individual response. The word count excludes the assessment questions and reference list but includes in-text references and direct quotations.

Resources

1. You can use unit provided materials and other credible sources (e.g. journal articles, books) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.
2. We recommend that you access your discipline specific library guide: the Nursing and Midwifery Guide.
3. For information on academic communication please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language.
4. Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Submission Submit your assessment via the unit Moodle site in a Microsoft Word document. Marking Criteria Refer to the marking rubric on the Moodle site for more detail on how marks will be assigned.

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