307488 (v.1) Nurse Practitioner Internship 562

Area:

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

29.0

** 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. **

Tutorial:

1 x 4 Hours Weekly

Clinical Practice:

1 x 25 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

307483 (v.1) Professional Foundations 561
AND
307484 (v.1) Diagnostics 561
AND
307485 (v.1) Pharmacology 521
AND
307486 (v.1) Nursing Leadership 571

Syllabus:

Clinical practice, policies, protocols. Competency standards, professional guidelines, portfolio, registration. Accountability, law, ethics, cultural security, social justice. Diagnostic process, clinical decision-making. Assessment, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, quality use of medicines, management chronic and self-limiting acute disease. Interdisciplinary collaboration, communication. Referral, clinical leadership and management. Integration of research evidence into practice.

** 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. **

Field of Education:

60300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Not Online

Result Type:

Pass/Fail

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Area External	Central External
2004	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2004	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y		Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area