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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

313044 (v.1) Inquiry for Nursing Practice 366

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Once-only
Other: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar: 3 x 4 Hours Once-only
Syllabus: Therapeutic communication with the critically unstable client and family. Clinical decision making in a crisis situation. Nurse client interaction in the "critically unstable stage". Negotiation and problem solving (interaction with peers and clients). Prioritising care. Role modelling, peer mentoring. Communicating client information to other health professionals. Delegation and decision making framework. Using research to influence clinical practice. Critiquing of research quantitative and qualitative. Nurse mentor and preceptor. The legal and ethical principles that influence and constrain health care professionals. Health informatics. Professional survival skills, dealing with burnout, stress in the workplace, bullying in the workplace, health professional boundaries, transition to registered nurse.
Field of Education: 060301 General Nursing
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External