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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

STRP-PHCNC v.1 Primary Health Care and Community Nursing Stream (GCert ClinNurs)


Major/Stream Overview

This major/stream is part of a larger course. Information is specific to the major/stream, please refer to the course for more information.


The Primary Health Care and Community Nursing Stream offers effective and specific education to prepare registered nurses for a leadership role in primary health care and community nursing. Key elements of the curriculum include critical thinking, professional accountability, evidence based practice, leadership and the development of competency in assessment skills, clinical decision making and clinical judgement at an advanced level.



Major/Minor/Stream Organisation

Students need to stay in original stream as this is linked to the employment sector and scholarship.



Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1 Semester 1
NURS5012 v.1   Primary Health Care and Community Nursing 8.0 50.0
  50.0
Year 1 Semester 2
NURS5014 v.1   Advanced Clinical Practice 1 3.0 25.0
NURS5015 v.1   Advanced Clinical Practice 2 3.0 25.0
  50.0




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