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Unit of Study NRS73001 - Acute Care Nursing (2020)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains laboratory activities and/or professional experience learning that require students to fulfil certain vaccination and compliance requirements prior to attending. As some of these can take up to 5 months to complete, you must prepare now. Failure to comply with these 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

Introduces students to the concepts of nursing care in acute care settings. Students will analyse and evaluate nursing care across a range of acute conditions. As part of this unit students will complete 160 hours of professional placement.

Unit content

  • Introduction to acute illness strategies
  • The practice of nursing care in acute health conditions and deterioration
  • Intravenous access/ central venous access devices management
  • Parenteral complex fluid administration
  • Blood Product Management
  • Perioperative care
  • Pain management (Patient controlled analgesia/ epidural)
  • Nursing care in acute
    • cardiovascular states: electrocardiograph interpretation, arrhythmia and chest pain management
    • respiratory states including Intubation, ventilation, intercostal catheter, underwater seal drainage
    • renal/urinary states
    • musculoskeletal states
  • Preparation for PEP6

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Session1,3
Session1,3
Gold Coast
Session1,3
Session1,3
Lismore
Session1,3
Session1,3

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 critically analyse patient assessment data to determine an effective care plan for patient-centred acute care nursing
2 practice safe and competent nursing care in a range of acute consumer clinical presentations
3 demonstrate sound problem-solving abilities applied to professional and collaborative practice in the simulated acute care setting.
4 relate knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics to safe medication management in acute contexts

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

  1. critically analyse patient assessment data to determine an effective care plan for patient-centred acute care nursing
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. practice safe and competent nursing care in a range of acute consumer clinical presentations
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  3. demonstrate sound problem-solving abilities applied to professional and collaborative practice in the simulated acute care setting.
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  4. relate knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics to safe medication management in acute contexts
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:

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