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Unit of Study NRS73007 - Nursing Management of Acute Health Breakdown (2017)

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  • Enrolment information

    Please be advised that this unit includes professional experience learning which has pre-placement provisions and associated placement expenses as detailed on the School of Health and Human Sciences Professional Experience page. Failure to comply with these pre-placement requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Professional Experience Learning.

Unit description

Introduces students to the concepts underlying health issues that lead to acute health breakdown requiring nursing care in acute care settings. Students will demonstrate nursing care in acute health care settings.  As part of this unit students will complete 120 hours of professional placement.

Unit content

Nursing care, pharmacotherapeutics, physiology and technology and application of nursing knowledge in

  • Mental health deterioration in the acute care setting
  • Perioperative care
  • Acute pain management
  • Advanced wound management
  • Acute coronary syndrome and acute cardiac conditions
  • Respiratory Trauma and ventilation
  • Acute renal and urinary conditions
  • Acute gastrointestinal conditions
  • Acute nervous system, ear, nose and throat, endocrine and metabolic states
  • Acute musculoskeletal injury

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2017

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 synthesise knowledge of physiological responses in acute health conditions to enable recognition and management of acute health breakdown
2 critique the effectiveness of the nurses’ response to acute health breakdown and the nursing management of acute health conditions
3 relate knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics to the management of acute health breakdown
4 appraise evidence based interventions to provide person centred care in acute care settings

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

  1. synthesise knowledge of physiological responses in acute health conditions to enable recognition and management of acute health breakdown
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. critique the effectiveness of the nurses’ response to acute health breakdown and the nursing management of acute health conditions
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. relate knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics to the management of acute health breakdown
    • GA4:
  4. appraise evidence based interventions to provide person centred care in acute care settings
    • GA1:
    • GA4: