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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.

AGEN4000 (v.1) Palliative Care

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
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.
Online Class: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 2919 (v.5) Palliative Care 467 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 313042 (v.1) Applied Bioscience 366 or any previous version
OR
313043 (v.2) Behavioural Health Science for Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine 366 or any previous version
OR
313044 (v.1) Inquiry for Nursing Practice 366 or any previous version
OR
313045 (v.2) Nursing Practice 366 or any previous version
OR
GMED3001 (v.1) Applied Bioscience for Critical Care or any previous version
OR
MENT3000 (v.1) Behavioural Perspectives of Mental Wellbeing or any previous version
OR
NURS3002 (v.1) Inquiry for Complex Care or any previous version
OR
CRIT3001 (v.1) Complex Nursing Practice 2 or any previous version
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.
Syllabus: This unit will focus on socio-cultural perspective of death and dying in Australia; social-cultural, psychological and spiritual dimensions of palliative care across diverse groups; nursing/allied health assessment and support of the palliative patient and their family; principles of a palliative approach to care; evidence informed management for common end-of-life symptoms; the inter-professional team approach to palliative care; ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care; use of complimentary and alternative therapies; personal responses to end-of-life conditions, grief and bereavement.
Field of Education: 060311 Aged Care Nursing
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1         Y
2015 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


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