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Unit of Study NRS20006 - Foundations to Nursing (2020)

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  • Enrolment information

    Students are required to attend intensive classes every day of week 1 of session available at the Gold Coast and Coffs Harbour campuses. Students who are not able to attend this intensive block should not enrol in this unit.

  • Enrolment restriction

    To enrol in this unit you need to submit a Unit Approval Request (UAR) as this unit contains laboratory activities and/or professional experience learning that require students to fulfil certain vaccination and compliance requirements prior to attending. On receipt of the UAR, the School’s Professional Experience Unit (PEU) will then contact you to ensure you are aware of the requirements and take the necessary steps to be compliant in time for start of session. Failure to comply with requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Laboratory Activity and/or Professional Experience Learning which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/clinicalplacements.

Unit description

Explores philosophical theories as they relate to nursing practice. Students critically examine contemporary practice issues as they relate to competency standards, legislation and policy frameworks in the context of  practice. Using various narratives of health and illness from Australia and internationally, students will explore factors that influence health and the delivery of care.

Unit content

  • Critical thought and reflection
  • Ethics, justice and patients’ rights
  • Health informatics and the transmission of thinking
  • Evidence-based practices
  • Developing an annotated bibliography
  • Academic writing and academic integrity
  • Social determinants of health
  • Nursing and the law
  • Professionalism and scope of nursing practice
  • Role relationships in multidisciplinary health care
  • Health, stress and coping
  • National Health Priorities
  • Mental health assessment management and psychotropic medications

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Session1
Session1
Gold Coast
Session1,2
Session1,2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 analyse the meaning of nursing care in relation to multiple narratives of health and illness
2 analyse the impact of current trends in Australian health care
3 discuss the statutory and professional governance requirements that regulate Nursing practice
4 demonstrate an understanding of the principles of academic integrity and writing including knowledge of relevant policies
5 describe the development of knowledge that informs and constructs conceptual-based thinking.

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

  1. analyse the meaning of nursing care in relation to multiple narratives of health and illness
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
  2. analyse the impact of current trends in Australian health care
    • GA5:
  3. discuss the statutory and professional governance requirements that regulate Nursing practice
    • GA3:
  4. demonstrate an understanding of the principles of academic integrity and writing including knowledge of relevant policies
    • GA3:
  5. describe the development of knowledge that informs and constructs conceptual-based thinking.
    • GA3:
    • GA5:

Prescribed learning resources

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