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Unit of Study NURS1001 - Foundations to Nursing (2023)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains professional experience learning/laboratory activities that require students to meet mandatory compliance requirements prior to attending. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the Professional Experience Learning and/or stipulated Laboratory Activity which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/healthplacements Please note: Full Covid-19 vaccination is a mandatory requirement associated with the placement element of this unit of study. This requirement has been stipulated by the placement providers. It is strongly recommended that only students who meet this requirement enrol in this unit.

Unit description

Explores philosophical theories as they relate to nursing practice. Students critically examine contemporary practice issues as they relate to competency standards, legislation and policy frameworks in the context of  practice. Using various narratives of health and illness from Australia and internationally, students will explore factors that influence health and the delivery of care.

Unit content

  • Critical thought and reflection
  • Ethics, justice and patients’ rights
  • Health informatics and the transmission of thinking
  • Evidence-based practices
  • Developing an annotated bibliography
  • Academic writing and academic integrity
  • Social determinants of health
  • Nursing and the law
  • Professionalism and scope of nursing practice
  • Role relationships in multidisciplinary health care
  • Health, stress and coping
  • National Health Priorities
  • Mental health assessment management and psychotropic medications

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2023

Learning outcomes

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:

analyse the meaning of nursing care in relation to multiple narratives of health and illness

analyse the impact of current trends in Australian health care

discuss the statutory and professional governance requirements that regulate Nursing practice

demonstrate an understanding of the principles of academic integrity and writing including knowledge of relevant policies

describe the development of knowledge that informs and constructs conceptual-based thinking.