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Nursing of Acute Health Conditions (NURS90155)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
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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 acute 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 develop abilities to work in interprofessional collaboration with medicine and allied health to deliver safe, effective, evidence-based collaborative care.
Throughout the subject there will be a focus on examining the health care system, including digital health components, from the perspective of factors that can affect patient outcomes and the importance of identifying, critically appraising and integrating evidence into clinical practice. Using safety and quality as a framework student will examine trends in critical incidents that result in adverse outcomes for patients locally and globally. They will also be introduced to emerging strategies in health care that seek to improve safety and quality and consider the role of the nurse in leading these efforts at a clinical and organisational level.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Describe the ethical and legal principles of autonomy, confidentiality, and informed consent as they apply to nurse-patient interactions;
- Demonstrate an understanding of nursing assessment frameworks for practice in the acute and community setting;
- Prioritise and rationalise patient health assessment data and implement nursing interventions within the Clinical Decision Making Framework while maintaining cultural awareness, respect and sensitivity;
- Incorporate and demonstrate understanding of the role of the National Health Priorities (The National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions (Links to an external site.) in practice, where relevant;
- Demonstrate understanding of how digital health technologies can be applied in practice, such as electronic health records, clinical decision support systems, patient portals, electronic medication administration, telehealth, and mobile apps;
- Reflect on how cultural background and history, including that of First Nations Peoples, influences and shapes one's worldview and the nurse/patient relationship;
- Demonstrate knowledge of the key contemporary safety and quality issues in Australian and International healthcare;
- Explain why the health care system is a potential source of adverse events for patients;
- Apply knowledge of patient assessment, evidence-based research and guidelines to select nursing interventions for patients with acute conditions while maintaining cultural awareness, respect and sensitivity; and
- Refine patient assessment by using a comprehensive nursing framework and utilise assessment data to develop nursing care plans for patients experiencing acute illness across the lifespan while maintaining cultural awareness, respect and sensitivity.
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: 1 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
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: 1 February 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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2 x Case study analysis (online assessment, open book)
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
2 x discussion board activities (500 words each)
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
Exam 1
| End of Semester 1 | 20% |
Presentation
| Mid Semester 2 | 15% |
Exam 2
| End of Semester 2 | 25% |
Last updated: 1 February 2024
Dates & times
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Principal coordinator Heather Buttigieg Coordinator Jo Martin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 34 hours face-to-face lectures (2hrs/week); 17 hours online learning (1hr/week); 28 hours synchronous sessions/tutorial (14hrs/semester). Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 29 January 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 31 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Year Long contact information
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Last updated: 1 February 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.
Calleja, P., Theobald, K., & Harvey, T. (2020). Health Assessment & Physical Examination. 3rd Australian & New Zealand Edition. (3rd ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.
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
Johnstone, M. (2019). Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective. (7th 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.
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
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Type Name Course Master of Nursing Science
Last updated: 1 February 2024