Duration: 1 hour
Aim: The aim of this module is to explore safety and quality in the healthcare setting and provide an understanding of the role of clinical governance and risk management in the quality improvement process.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:- Understanding of safety and quality as it applies to the acute healthcare setting,
- Established an understanding of the eight National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards,
- Expanded their knowledge of clinical governance and risk management as it applies to the acute healthcare setting,
- Developed an awareness of the quality improvement process including the application of the quality improvement cycle and
- Completed a quality improvement activity using the ‘Quality Improvement on a Page’ template
Duration: 1-2 hours
Aim: The aim of this module is to increase understanding of leadership in the nursing and/or midwifery context and to provide useful information and strategies for implementation to support leadership development.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:- Expand knowledge of leadership in general and in the context of healthcare
- Identify the difference between leadership and management
- Engage with the standards and codes that provide guiding leadership values behaviours and practices
- Discover own character strengths and how this contributes to developing leadership qualities
- Relate various leadership styles to different clinical scenarios
- Increase awareness of how to lead as a novice
- Explore strategies to develop leadership qualities and behaviours
Duration: 2 hours
Aim: The aim of this module is to facilitate the development of clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills and integrate them into the novice nurse and/or midwife’s effective management of high-acuity, complex patients to improve outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:- Demonstrate an understanding of clinical reasoning
- Demonstrate an understanding of critical thinking
- Identify the differences between critical thinking and clinical reasoning
- Define and explain the process of the clinical reasoning cycle
- Rationalise the importance of clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills in practice
- Discuss clinical reasoning errors and biases which may contribute to adverse patient outcomes
- Apply the clinical reasoning cycle to inform clinical decisions and judgements
Duration: 1-2 hours
Aim: To expand on and apply a broad understanding of professional identity to the individuals own nursing/midwifery practice and how this is exhibited in professional behaviours.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:- Explain what ‘professional identity’ is and synthesise a definition for their own practice
- Increase awareness of the international, national and local considerations when exploring professional identity
- Explore how professional identity evolves over time
- Reflect on influences and impacts of professional identity development
- Identify an association between the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s standards and codes and the Nursing and Midwifery Office Strategic Priorities on development of a professional identity
- Apply an understanding of professional identity to the individuals own nursing and/or midwifery practice
- Increase understanding of how to develop a professional portfolio
Duration: 2 hours
Aim: The aim of this module is to increase understanding of professional communication and to provide useful strategies for implementation to aid effective communication with patients and within the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:- Expand knowledge of the standards and codes that provide communication guidelines for the profession/s
- Explore risk and contributing factors regarding ineffective communication
- Relate effective communication with increased patient safety and outcomes
- Engage with strategies to implement in the workplace to assist effective communication with patients and within the multidisciplinary team
- Reflect on own communication style
- Apply strategies to develop a more confident communication style
- Establish understanding of critical language processes for implementation in the workplace
- Increase awareness of professional use of social media and electronic communication
Duration: 3 hours
Aim: The aim of this module is to support and further develop newly graduated enrolled nurses’ knowledge and skills of the ‘fundamentals of nursing care’ and facilitate their application into clinical practice.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:- Demonstrate an understanding for the scope of practice for the enrolled nurse,
- Apply the theory of nursing process and clinical rounding to inform and guide the provision of person-centred care in clinical practice,
- Define and explain person-centred care and its benefits in clinical practice,
- Engage with strategies which promote time management and prioritisation skills,
- Demonstrate an understanding of your role in pressure injury prevention, nutrition management, and maintaining oral hygiene,
- Understand of the importance of accurate fluid balance monitoring and the affecting factors,
- Apply clinical skills in assessing hydration status,
- Demonstrate an understanding of critical thinking principles and application into clinical practice and
- Understanding of, and be able to apply the principles of A-E assessment to identify a deteriorating patient
Duration: 3 hours
Aim: The Resilience and Wellbeing Support Module complements the varied strategies and tools available to support clinicians to invest in growing personal resilience and contributing to overall health and wellbeing.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:- Respond appropriately and constructively to difficult situations
- Build capacity to manage adversity
- Understand compassion fatigue, its clinical implications and strategies to prevent and manage it.
The SA Health Nursing and Midwifery Early Career Transition Programs include the following programs/learning opportunities:
- TPPP (facilitated at CALHN): The SA Health Transition to Professional Practice Program (TPPP) is a formalised, innovative state-wide program, developed in consultation between SA Health and the ANMF (SA Branch) to ensure it is contemporary, evidenced based, and professionally focused. The TPPP includes capability development, e-learning modules, 38 hours formal professional development/study time, supernumerary clinical orientation, unit days and workplace support. When transition is complete, complementary SA Health continuing education, specialisation, and capability development frameworks, continue to support the nurse and/or midwife’s lifelong learning journey.
- Supported RN & EN Program (facilitated at CALHN): This program is modelled closely on the state-wide TPPP. The program aims to invest in the future nursing and midwifery workforce by developing the newly graduated nurse/midwife’s knowledge and skills related to the delivery of evidence informed, quality, person-centred care. Supported RN & EN Program participants are provided with workplace support and professional development opportunities to complete the program. Participant professional development is enabled through:
- Identifying key learning goals and outcomes
- Enabling the development of clinical skills and professional ability and competence
- Empowering the learner and building confidence
- Partnering with others to learn and grow
- Self-directed learning opportunity: This opportunity is for newly graduated nurses not participating in an ECTP. The SA Health Nursing and Midwifery Office Transition Programs provide a complementary learning pathway with potential for a self- directed approach, for growing the professional and workplace capability of nurses and midwives. The e-learning modules, developed as part of the TPPP, contribute to core learning experiences for participants in the ‘Self-directed Program’. The e-learning modules contain the core information required to support the transition of the individual nurse and midwife into professional practice as capable and confident clinicians.
Duration: 1 hour
Aim: The aim of this module is to explore new nurses and midwives’ transitioning to professional practice experience and its associated theory, identify its relevance to new nurses and midwives’ clinical practice, and discuss strategies to support their transition experience.
Learning Objectives:
On completion of this module participants will be able to:
- Increase their understanding of workplace adaptation and the transition process as it applies to the nursing and midwifery workforce;
- Develop awareness and insight of the three stages of workplace transition: Doing Being and Knowing;
- Explore transition shock and the associated challenges that a nurse or midwife may experience;
- Reflect on strategies to establish and support a positive transitional experience; and
- Identify approaches and techniques to minimise any challenges or potentially negative transitional encounters.