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Unit of Study NRS82001 - Clinical Reasoning and Assessment Skills (2018)

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Unit description

Enables students to build on current knowledge and skills to demonstrate sound clinical judgement and reasoning based on evidence based nursing care. A systematic and comprehensive approach to health assessment and chronic health complaints will be explored.

Unit content

  1. Clinical reasoning and judgement in nursing
  2. Principles of physical assessment
  3. Application of physical Assessment-
  4. Principles and processes of constructive feedback
  5. Documentation using the Subjective, Objective Assessment and Plan (SOAP) method

Students will be required to attend a four (4) day intensive in a metropolitan, regional or rural setting as a part of their learning and assessment.

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2018

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 examine the clinical reasoning cycle and its application in the nursing context and evaluate the role of critical thinking abilities in maintaining safe and effective patient care
2 critique each stage of clinical reasoning cycle in the implementation of nursing care
3 interpret, apply and document the principles of physical assessment to the client's presentation/condition using the SOAP method of recording clinical information to justify the assessment
4 perform a comprehensive systematic patient health assessment and integrate findings and recommendations into a plan that can be shared with the multidisciplinary team

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

  1. examine the clinical reasoning cycle and its application in the nursing context and evaluate the role of critical thinking abilities in maintaining safe and effective patient care
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  2. critique each stage of clinical reasoning cycle in the implementation of nursing care
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  3. interpret, apply and document the principles of physical assessment to the client's presentation/condition using the SOAP method of recording clinical information to justify the assessment
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  4. perform a comprehensive systematic patient health assessment and integrate findings and recommendations into a plan that can be shared with the multidisciplinary team
    • GA4:
    • GA6: