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Intensive Care Nursing Practice (NURS90128)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
June
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | June - Online |
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In this subject, students will clinically apply the theoretical principles from this subject and subjects, Applied Pathophysiology, Foundations of Critical Care Nursing and Intensive Care Nursing 1. Students will also continue to develop the skills acquired this subject’s pre-requisite, Critical Care Nursing Practice to continue to support comprehensive patient assessment, monitoring and care planning for patients requiring intensive care. Students will also learn to incorporate knowledge and evidence of psycho-social factors influencing patients’ outcomes to inform their clinical decision making in practice.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students will demonstrate more advanced understanding of the scientific advances and evidence-based research that underpins skill development specific to intensive care nursing practice by:
- Integration of core principles covered in the subject and its pre-requisites, Applied Pathophysiology, Foundation of Critical Care Nursing and Critical Care Nursing Practice to develop practice knowledge that supports comprehensive patient assessment and monitoring
- Application of knowledge and skills to recognise, prioritise and respond to patients experiencing acute alterations to health status
- Evaluation of the effect of intensive care nursing interventions in the delivery of safe and competent nursing
- Application of skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflective practice to the delivery of specialist intensive care nursing
Generic skills
- A capacity to articulate their knowledge and understanding in oral and written modes of communication
- A capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work
- Advanced competencies in areas of professional expertise and/or scholarship
- Advanced skills and techniques applicable to the discipline
- Well-developed problem-solving abilities in the discipline area, characterised by flexibility of approach
- An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature in the discipline
- An appreciation of the ways in which advanced knowledge equips the student to offer leadership in the specialist area
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90099 | Critical Care Nursing Practice |
March (Online)
September (Online)
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6.25 |
Students can concurrently undertake Intensive Care Nursing 1 and Intensive Care Nursing 2.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Students are required to be working in an intensive care setting and have background foundational knowledge in critical care nursing.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Written assessment
| At the end of the assessment period | 80% |
Patient Assessment and Care Plan Part 1: Audio‐visual presentation (10 minutes, equivalent to 1000 words)
| End of the assessment period | 20% |
Clinical Performance Appraisal
| At the end of the assessment period | N/A |
Clinical Skills Assessments x 4, equivalent 200 words in total
| During the assessment period | N/A |
Additional details
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- June - Online
Coordinators Rosemary Turner and Rebecca Jarden Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 80 hours Pre teaching start date 15 June 2020 Pre teaching requirements In Week 0 students are required to familiarise themselves with the subject's Learning Management System (LMS), subject information, including assessment tasks Teaching period 22 June 2020 to 9 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 16 June 2020 Census date 17 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 18 September 2020 Assessment period ends 15 November 2020 June contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Time commitment details
Students are required to undertake 9 – 10 hours per week of online and self‐directed learning activities
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022