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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

313040 (v.1) Inquiry for Nursing Practice 365

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Semester
Individual Study: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar: 3 x 4 Hours Semester
Syllabus: Communication with critically unstable clients and their families. Altered mental state, altered consciousness, client rights, assisted suicide, and abortion. Living will - refusing treatment. Preservation of client centred care along the continuum of client's rights from self-determination to custodial care. Recognition and mandatory reporting of abuse. Quantitative approaches to nursing research. Organ donation. Scope of practice, advocacy, client rights, family support. Managing complexity using clinical decision making.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 060301 General Nursing
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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