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Critical Care Nursing Practice (NURS90099)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
March
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
September
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
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In this subject, students will apply the theoretical principles in Applied Pathophysiology and the Foundations of Critical Care Nursing into their area of speciality practice. Students will demonstrate the ability to undertake and support comprehensive patient assessment, monitoring and evaluation and care planning in specialty nursing practice. Students will learn to incorporate and apply scientific knowledge and evidence-based treatment and nursing interventions to support a patient-centred approach to inform their clinical decision making in practice.
Intended learning outcomes
- Integrate the core principles covered in this subject and its pre-requisite, Applied Pathophysiology, to establish specialist knowledge of the impact of treatment on the disease trajectory, acute illness, and management of patients with a range of acute health problems
- Incorporate knowledge learned in the subject to recognise and plan an evidence-based intervention for patients experiencing alterations to health and wellness that occur in the specific context of critical care
- Demonstrate the capacity to problem-solve, think critically and promote rational inquiry when provided with a clinical scenario
- Demonstrate a high level of written communication skills as it applies to critical care nursing
Generic skills
On completion of the subject students should have developed the following generic skills of the Melbourne graduate and graduate coursework student:
- 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