Courses Handbook 2008

307488 (v.1) Nurse Practitioner Internship 562


Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 20.7
** 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 16.66 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 5755 (v.6) Managerial Effectiveness 571
AND
    13152 (v.3) Health Research Methods 681
    OR
    4712 (v.3) Qualitative Methods in Health Research 582
    OR
    301950 (v.3) Research and Evaluation in International Health 600
AND
307483 (v.1) Professional Foundations 561
AND
307484 (v.1) Diagnostics 561
AND
307485 (v.1) Pharmacology 521
AND
307487 (v.2) Pharmacotherapeutics 522
Syllabus: Clinical practice, policies, protocols. Competency standards, professional guidelines, portfolio, registration. Accountability, law, ethics, cultural security and social justice. Diagnostic process and clinical decision-making. Assessment, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, quality use of medicines, management of chronic and self-limiting acute disease. Interdisciplinary collaboration and 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: 060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 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

Curtin Search Curtin Site Index