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Unit of Study HLTH1007 - Foundations of Clinical Practice (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    It is recommended that full-time students complete this unit with NURS1005 Fundamentals of Nursing Practice

Unit description

Develops a foundational knowledge of the principles of practitioner self-care, safety in healthcare and health assessment. With this knowledge, students are provided with an opportunity to work alongside their interdisciplinary colleagues to acquire, practise and demonstrate foundational communication, observational and assessment skills that underpin clinical practice. Practice in laboratory sessions and simulated rehearsal prepares students to carry out foundational assessment skills ensuring a focus on patient safety and minimising adverse events.

Unit content

  1. Practitioner self-care
  2. Introduction to healthcare safety and adverse events
  3. Foundations to clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning – the cycle
  4. Infection prevention and control
  5. Vital signs
  6. Foundations of health assessment and effective communication

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term3
Term3
Gold Coast
Term3
Term3
Lismore
Term3
Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

reflect on personal strategies to maintain self-care and develop emotional intelligence to ensure safe professional and clinical practice

demonstrate an awareness of the principles of developing health communication techniques related to clinical practice, cognisant of the need for cultural sensitivity and awareness

demonstrate safe and competent practice for a range of foundational skills

discuss the components of clinical reasoning frameworks

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.