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Nursing of Acute Health Conditions (NURS90155)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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The subject aims to develop students’ 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 understanding the health care system, including digital health components, 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, students will examine trends in critical incidents that result in adverse outcomes for patients locally and globally. Students will 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:
- Discuss the key contemporary safety and quality context for registered nursing practice in Australian and International healthcare
- Critically reflect on the influences of culture and history, including that of First Nations Peoples, and how these influence and shape the nurse/patient relationship
- Selecting a relevant nursing assessment framework, analyse and interpret patient data to identify and prioritise nursing problems for patients with acute health conditions
- Using a Clinical Decision Making Framework, plan nursing interventions for patients with acute health conditions, based on best available evidence including the use of pharmacological agents
- Generate a nursing care plan using clinical reasoning skills and nursing assessment frameworks in the acute and community setting
- Evaluate the implementation of patient care and patient outcomes, modifying practice where clinically indicated
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: 23 December 2024