| Area: | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 13.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Laboratory: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Clinical Practice: | 1 x 119 Hours Yearly |
| Prerequisite(s): | 300721 (v.2) Primary Health Care Practice 223 or any previous version
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| Co Requisite(s): | 300731 (v.1) Nursing Bioscience 244
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| Syllabus: | Medical Surgical Nursing Care. Airway management, care of the unconscious patient. Medical/surgical asepsis. Fluid, wound, pressure, pain and continence management. Documentation and evaluation of care. Health mathematics. Administration of medications. Introduction to perioperative nursing. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit, students will have - Demonstrated achievement of competencies in specified medical/surgical clinical placement. Provided safe nursing care in the preoperative environment. Communicated effectively within the health care team. Accurately reflected the nursing of a client in documentation. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| Unit References: | No prescribed references. |
| Unit Texts: | No prescribed texts. |
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| Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Competency based evaluation, examination. This is by pass/fail assessment. |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | Y | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | Y | | 2004 | Great Southern TAFE Albany | Semester 1 | Y | | | | 2004 | Kalgoorlie Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | | | 2004 | Geraldton University Centre | Semester 1 | Y | | | |
