Intensive Care Nursing Practice (NURS90150)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Off Campus
About this subject
Contact information
April
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
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Overview
| Availability | April - Off Campus |
|---|---|
| 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
- 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: 4 March 2025