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Unit of Study NRS72009 - Health Maintenance and Restorative Nursing Care (2018)

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  • Enrolment information

    The laboratory activities within this unit require students to fulfil certain vaccination compliance requirements. Vaccination protocols may take up to 5 months to complete. Compliance requirements include SCU Vaccination requirements in accordance with state Health policies: NSW Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases; QLD Health Vaccination Requirements. Full details are available at https://www.scu.edu.au/school-of-health-and-human-sciences/course-options/professional-experience/

Unit description

Provides students with a comprehensive understanding of nursing interventions that facilitate health maintenance and restorative health of individuals and communities. Students further develop assessment, screening, clinical skills and cultural safety relevant to working with clients in a range of primary care settings. Problem-solving and decision-making skills, that respond to clinical challenges, will be developed in primary and secondary nursing interventions with priority population groups to provide person-centred care.

Unit content

  • Physical and mental health wellbeing
  • Culturally sensitive nursing care
  • Person and home assessment
  • Risk assessment and nursing practice in a Primary Care Setting
  • Public health-epidemiology, pandemic and disaster management (infection control)
  • Disease and injury prevention
  • Dementia management
  • Work, health and safety
  • Building healthy communities
  • Community-based screening programs
  • Complex wound assessment & management
  • Medication compliance, polypharmacy and documentation
  • Subcutaneous infusions
  • Maintaining health through nutrition
  • Pain Management in the home
  • Awareness of Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
  • Life limiting conditions and palliation in the community – a holistic approach
  • Approaches to physical and mental health rehabilitation

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 2 Session 2
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2
Lismore Session 2 Session 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 apply knowledge in developing person-centred nursing care for health maintenance and restorative health across population groups
2 develop a comprehensive and integrative approach to assessment in primary health care settings
3 apply problem-solving and decision-making skills in providing patient-centred care that address health maintenance and restorative health and associated clinical challenges in primary care settings

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

  1. apply knowledge in developing person-centred nursing care for health maintenance and restorative health across population groups
    • GA1:
  2. develop a comprehensive and integrative approach to assessment in primary health care settings
    • GA2:
    • GA6:
  3. apply problem-solving and decision-making skills in providing patient-centred care that address health maintenance and restorative health and associated clinical challenges in primary care settings
    • GA1:
    • GA2:

Prescribed learning resources

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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.