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Nursing of Chronic Health Conditions (NURS90158)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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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 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 how the principles of health education influence the assessment of the education needs of individuals/families/carers in acute and community settings;
  • 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: 1 February 2024

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
NURS90155 Nursing of Acute Health Conditions
Year Long (On Campus - 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: 1 February 2024

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

3 x discussion board activities (500 words each) 10% each discussion board activity

  • 1500 words (total)
Throughout the teaching period30%

Case study analysis

  • 1500 words
Second half of the teaching period30%

Exam

  • 2000 words
End of semester40%

Last updated: 1 February 2024

Dates & times

  • Semester 1 (Early-Start)
    CoordinatorLauren Zarb
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hours24 hours lectures/seminars/workshops/webinars
    Total time commitment170 hours
    Teaching period29 January 2024 to 26 May 2024
    Last self-enrol date 9 February 2024
    Census date 3 April 2024
    Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024
    Assessment period ends21 June 2024

    Semester 1 (Early-Start) contact information

    lauren.zarb@unimelb.edu.au

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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.

    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.

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    TypeName
    CourseMaster of Nursing Science

Last updated: 1 February 2024