Assignment Overview
Learning Outcomes
- Critically review communication models and modes and their implications for effective, appropriate and culturally safe nursing practice for individuals, families, groups and communities, throughout the lifespan and in all practice settings.
- Critically review health informatics and technology in relation to effective nursing practice and to safe, quality healthcare delivery, including in catastrophic disasters such as pandemics.
- Critically consider communication (including advocacy), health informatics and technology in relation to future leadership roles in practice and professional contexts.
Relevance of Assessment
This assessment task presents an opportunity for you to extend and integrate your understanding of communication, health informatics and technology through critical reflection on the learning experiences that you have encountered during the semester. Your analysis also establishes a basis for considering professional practice implications.
Assessment Preparation Requirements
During your study of this unit, you have engaged with a wide range of learning experiences, including readings, commentary, discussion points, module reflective activities, assessment tasks, as well as practice and other experiences that relate to unit topics.
These experiences serve as valuable opportunities that can influence reflective deliberation. It is recommended that you record your responses to these experiences as you progress through the semester.
A journal can be useful for this purpose (Your journal is not submitted for assessment).
Task
For this task, you are required to present four extracts from your written reflections throughout the semester, including one that relates to your group project experience, and three that have emerged from other NUR536 unit learning experiences that you have encountered during the semester, including module activities and readings.
Each extract must include a reflective analysis that demonstrates:
- how your thinking or assumptions have been challenged,
- what deeper insights you have gained,
- what questions have emerged from your reflections, and
- how you will apply this thinking to future professional and leadership roles.
It is essential that your analysis reflects engagement with the academic literature. Please refer to Module 7 to inform your understanding of this reflective task.
Support for This Assessment
Research: Contact a CDU librarian for guidance. Review the content of the Nursing Libguides on the Library website.
Reflective Writing: CDU library website – Reflection.
Academic Skills: Contact a Language and Learning Advisor for support.
Summary of Assessment Requirements
The Assessment 3: Critical Reflection requires students to demonstrate an advanced understanding of communication, health informatics, and technology in nursing practice. The task is designed to help students integrate theoretical knowledge with reflective practice to evaluate their learning throughout the semester.
Key requirements include:
- Four reflective extracts:
- One extract must relate to the group project experience.
- Three extracts should come from other learning experiences (e.g., readings, module activities, or discussions).
- Each reflection should:
- Illustrate how personal thinking or assumptions have been challenged.
- Highlight deeper insights and emerging questions.
- Explain how these reflections will influence future professional and leadership roles.
- Demonstrate engagement with academic literature to support reflective analysis.
- Students are encouraged to maintain a personal journal throughout the semester (not submitted for marking) to help record reflective insights.
The overall goal of the assessment is to integrate learning experiences, enhance reflective thinking, and establish a foundation for applying communication, informatics, and leadership skills in professional nursing practice.