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Critical Care Nursing Practice (NURS90099)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Off Campus
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
March
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
Availability | March - Off Campus |
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Fees | Look up fees |
In this subject, students will clinically apply the theoretical principles from this subject and subjects, Applied Pathophysiology, Foundations of Critical Care Nursing and Critical Care Nursing. 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
On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Integrate core principles covered in the subject and its pre-requisites, Applied Pathophysiology and Foundations of Critical Care Nursing, to develop practice knowledge that supports comprehensive patient assessment and monitoring
- Apply knowledge and skills to recognise, prioritise and respond to patients experiencing acute alterations to health status
- Evaluate the effect of intensive care nursing interventions in the delivery of safe and competent nursing
- Apply skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflective practice to the delivery of specialist intensive care nursing.
Generic skills
On completion of the subject, students should have developed the following 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
- Well-developed problem-solving abilities, characterised by flexibility of approach
- An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature
- An appreciation of the ways in which advanced knowledge equips the student to offer leadership.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90076 | Applied Pathophysiology |
Summer Term (Online)
June (Online)
|
12.5 |
NURS90122 | Foundations of Critical Care Nursing |
September (Online)
March (Online)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90122 | Foundations of Critical Care Nursing |
September (Online)
March (Online)
|
12.5 |
Non-allowed subjects
None
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Written Assessment
| From Week 8 to Week 9 | 20% |
Written Assessment
| From Week 16 to Week 18 | 20% |
Clinical Performance Appraisal
| Week 9 | 0% |
Clinical Performance Appraisal
| End of the assessment period | 0% |
Clinical Skills Assessments x 6 (1 hour, equivalent to 500 words each, 10% each assessment)
| Distributed evenly across the year and due by the end of assessment period | 60% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- March - Off Campus
Principal coordinator Rebecca Jarden Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours 1 hour webinar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 21 March 2022 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 28 March 2022 to 22 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 22 March 2022 Census date 8 April 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 29 May 2022 March 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
16 hours of webinars (1 hour per week ) Students must be contracted to a health service to work a minimum 24 hours per week in nominated area of specialty practice and engage in additional self-directed learning for 8-10 hours per week
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Jayasinghe, R. (2012). ECG Workbook. Chatswood, NSW: Elesiver Australia
Last updated: 31 January 2024