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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
April
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
Availability | April - Off Campus |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject will be a combination of both of advanced theoretical principles and clinical application of learning to critical care nursing in practice. Students will demonstrate the ability to undertake and support comprehensive patient assessment, monitoring, evaluation and care planning in specialty nursing practice. Upon successful completion of the subject, students will incorporate and apply scientific knowledge, evidence-based treatment and nursing interventions to support a patient-centred approach and 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 care critical nursing interventions in the delivery of safe and competent nursing
- Apply problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and reflective practice to the delivery of specialist critical 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 |
January (Online)
July (Online)
|
12.5 |
NURS90122 | Foundations of Critical Care Nursing |
April (Online)
September (Online)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90122 | Foundations of Critical Care Nursing |
April (Online)
September (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
| Mid Teaching period | 20% |
Written Assessment
| End of the assessment period | 20% |
Clinical Performance Appraisal
| Week 9 | 0% |
Clinical Performance Appraisal
| End of the assessment period | 0% |
Clinical Skills Assessments x 6 (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
- April - Off Campus
Principal coordinator Rosemary Turner Coordinator Tim Davis Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 3 April 2023 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 10 April 2023 to 19 November 2023 Last self-enrol date 4 April 2023 Census date 26 May 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 1 September 2023 Assessment period ends 26 November 2023 April contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
What do these dates mean
Visit this webpage to find out about these key dates, including how they impact on:
- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Jayasinghe, R. (2012). ECG Workbook. Chatswood, NSW: Elesiver Australia
Last updated: 31 January 2024