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Unit of Study NRS72007 - Human Response to Health Breakdown (2018)

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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 demonstrate safe pharmacological therapy to provide person centred care for those with a chronic illness or disability
2 apply evidence-based principles to nursing interventions related to human responses, narratives and cultural considerations for individuals, groups and carers to health breakdown in the context of chronic illness
3 demonstrate knowledge of the pathophysiology and aetiology of respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, integumentary, and central nervous health breakdown
4 examine strategies to improve the burden of chronic illness and life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

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

  1. demonstrate safe pharmacological therapy to provide person centred care for those with a chronic illness or disability
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  2. apply evidence-based principles to nursing interventions related to human responses, narratives and cultural considerations for individuals, groups and carers to health breakdown in the context of chronic illness
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  3. demonstrate knowledge of the pathophysiology and aetiology of respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, integumentary, and central nervous health breakdown
    • GA1:
  4. examine strategies to improve the burden of chronic illness and life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.