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Nursing of Chronic Health Conditions (NURS90158)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
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The subject aims to help students develop knowledge, skill and application within the context of nursing care provided to clients/patients experiencing chronic and complex health problems. Students will develop their capabilities in client/patient assessment, data collection, nursing problem identification and evidence-based application of relevant nursing interventions. Students will also build on their pre-existing capabilities in interprofessional experiences with medicine and allied health to deliver safe, effective, evidence-based collaborative care.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Integrate the core principles covered in the subject and its pre-requisites, to develop practice knowledge and skills to support comprehensive patient assessment and monitoring across the lifespan while maintaining cultural awareness, respect and sensitivity;
- Discuss the ethical and legal principles of end of life support and enduring powers of attorney as they apply to nurse-patient interactions and respecting cultural values and beliefs;
- Illustrate the principles of health education and how to assess education needs of individuals/families/carers in the acute and community setting;
- Apply knowledge of patient assessment, evidence-based guidelines to select nursing interventions for patients with acute and chronic conditions;
- Apply skills in clinical decision making, problem-solving, critical thinking, reflective practice and self-directed learning to planning the care of patients with complex disease processes;
- Apply health assessment principles to plan, develop, implement, evaluate and revise comprehensive nursing care plans for patients with acute, chronic and complex illnesses across the lifespan while maintaining cultural awareness, respect and sensitivity;
- Apply and integrate evidence-based pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to clinical practice when caring for chronic and complex patients to optimise therapeutic planning across the lifespan, medication safety and risk and medication error management; and
- Demonstrate safe and appropriate use of core digital health technologies, including electronic medical records, telehealth and electronic medication administration, whilst employing ethical frameworks and conceptual models to evaluate contemporary clinical digital health practices.
Generic skills
- capacity for information seeking, retrieval and evaluation
- critical thinking and analytical skills in individual and interprofessional team settings
- capacity to rethink own ideas and an openness to new ideas
- appreciate how social-historical structures, including colonisation, contribute to social inequity and exclusion, and develop strategies that help redress this
- development of digital literacy skills required to communicate new knowledge
- demonstrate a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of scholarship and practice
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90155 | Nursing of Acute Health Conditions | Year Long (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
25 |
Corequisites
None
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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Case study analysis (online assessment, open book)
| First half of the teaching period | 20% |
Vodcast: a) 5-minute student generated video of nursing handover equivalent to 500 words (b) 2 x 250 word peer review of the nursing handovers
| Second half of the teaching period | 20% |
Take home exam 1
| Mid semester | 20% |
Take home exam 2
| End of semester | 40% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours lectures/seminars/workshops/webinars Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Ackley, B, J., & Ladwig, G. B. (2017). Nursing Diagnosis, an evidence based guide to planning care (11th ed.). St Louis: Mosby.
Brotto V, Rafferty K. (2020). Clinical dosage calculations. (3rd. ed.). Cengage Learning.
Brown, D., Edwards, H., Seaton, L., Buckley, T., Lewis, S. L., Dirksen, S. R., . . . Bucher, L. (Eds.). (2017). Lewis' Medical-Surgical nursing. Assessment and management of clinical problems (5th ed.). Sydney: Mosby Elsevier.
Broyles, BE., McKenzie, G., Pleunik, S., Page, S., Reiss, BS., & Evans, ME., (2020) Pharmacology in Nursing. 3rd Australian & New Zealand Edition. (3rd ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia
Calleja, P., Theobald, K., & Harvey, T. (2020). Health Assessment & Physical Examination. 3rd Australian & New Zealand Edition. (3rd ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.
Curtis, K., & Ramsden, C. (2019). Emergency & Trauma Care for Nurses & Paramedics. (3rd ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier.
Crisp,J., Rebeiro, G., Douglas, C ., & Waters, D. (Eds.). (2020). Potter and Perry's fundamentals of nursing / Australian adaptation (6th ed.). Chatswood, N.S.W: Elsevier Australia.
Nelson, R., & Staggers, N. (2018) Health Informatics. An interprofessional approach. St Louis. Elsevier
Johnstone, M. (2019). Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective. (7th ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier.
Stanton, P. & Chiarella, M. (2020). Law for Nurses and Midwives. (9th ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier.
Willis, E., Reynolds, L., & Rudge, T. (2020). Understanding the Australian Health Care System. (4th. Ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Nursing Science
Last updated: 31 January 2024