NURS6600 – Transition to Enrolled Nursing Practice
Module code
NURS6600
Module title
Transition to Enrolled Nursing Practice
Prescription
To enable ākonga the opportunity to integrate and consolidate nursing theory and practice to \r\ntransition them for beginning practice as a registered Enrolled Nurse by meeting the Enrolled \r\nNurse Standards of competence for enrolled nurses (Nursing Council of New Zealand, 2025) \r\nthrough clinical learning experience.
NZQA Level
Level 6
NZQA Credits
30
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 300
Resources required
- Learning Outcomes
- Practice safely within legal, ethical, professional boundaries and behaviour. Attain clinical competency for enrolled nursing practice and meet the Nursing Council of New Zealand Standards of Competence for Enrolled Nurses (2025). Apply interdisciplinary and evidence based nursing knowledge within relevant health models and frameworks to deliver culturally safe, whakapapa-centred care to individuals and whanau across the lifespan. Apply pharmacological principles to ensure safe, accurate, and independent medication management across diverse nursing contexts, integrating clinical judgement and professional accountability.
- Content
- • Nursing Council Standards of Competence for Enrolled Nurses • Matauranga Maori • Kawa whakaruruhau and cultural safety • Social justice and oritetanga • Becoming a safe, competent, confident, sustainable professional enrolled nurse • Evidence based nursing assessment • Clinical reasoning • Clinical judgment • Reflective practice • Safe medication calculations and administration • Health promotion • Health education • Digital health • Establishing and maintaining professional portfolios • Relational communication • Preparing for role transition • Accepts responsibility for decision making and actions • Leadership direction and coordination of care • Interprofessional collaboration • Sustainability • Advocating for quality and safety in healthcare • Interdisciplinary collaboration • Evidence based nursing practice • Health models and frameworks • Cultural safety and whakapapa-centred care • Lifespan approach to care • Pharmacology principles • Safe medication management • Clinical reasoning, clinical judgement and clinical decision making. • Legal and professional responsibilities • Reflective practice
- Assessment Criteria
- Akonga must submit and pass all specified assessments and achieve all learning outcomes to pass this course.