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Intensive Care Nursing Practice (NURS90150)
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 |
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. 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 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
- Coordinate safe and timely care of patients with a range of speciality clinical needs
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
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90076 | Applied Pathophysiology |
January (Online)
July (Online)
|
12.5 |
AND
Note: the following subject/s can also be taken concurrently (at the same time)
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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NURS90122 | Foundations of Critical Care Nursing |
April (Online)
September (Online)
|
12.5 |
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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Written Assessment
| From Week 8 to Week 9 | 20% |
Written assessment
| From Week 16 to Week 18 | 20% |
Clinical Performance Appraisal
| Week 9 | N/A |
Clinical Performance Appraisal
| End of the assessment period | N/A |
Clinical Skills Assessments (6 x 1 hour assessments equivalent to 500 words each, each worth 10%)
| Distributed evenly across the year and due by end of assessment period. | 60% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- April - Off Campus
Coordinators Emily Quinn and Rosemary Turner Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours Asynchronous learning and activities within the LMS of approximately 8-10 hours per week and synchronous online webinars and tutorials of 12-16 hours across the subject duration Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 3 April 2023 Pre teaching requirements Students will familiarise themselves with the online platform which will provide an overview of the subject, assessment requirements and expected activities and behaviours. They will also be provided with information about studying online and informed about the University resources available to them. 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
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024