307499 (v.1) Community Nursing Practice 562
| Area: | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 36.0 |
| Workshop: | 1 x 24 Hours Weekly |
| Clinical Practice: | 1 x 12 Hours Weekly |
| Prerequisite(s): | 306931 (v.1) Advanced Nursing Practice - Primary Health Care 561
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306934 (v.1) Advanced Nursing Practice - Promoting Health 561
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307495 (v.1) Developmental Health 561
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| Syllabus: | Health appraisal theory, health assessment, health surveillance, monitoring, developmental assessment. Professional communication, family partnerships, developing helping relationships, advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural security, socialjustice, legal and ethical issues. Scope of practice, clinical protocols. Professional accountability, competency standards. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students will be able to - Integrate family and community health nursing theory into professional and ethical practice in the community health setting. Establish and promote enabling interactions in professional relationships within the community. Demonstrate critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in the management of client care in the community. Synthesise and apply family and community health nursing theory to promote and maintain the health and well being of individuals, families and communities. Demonstrate competence to practice based on the Competency Standards for the Beginning Level Community Health Nurse. |
| 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: | Bell, S.K., (2001), Professional Nurse's Portfolio, Nursing Administration Quarterly, 25(2), 69-73. Brooks, B., Barrett, S. and Zimmermann, P.G., (1998), Beyond Your Resume - A Nurse's Professional Portfolio. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 24(6), 555-557. Rae, K. and Cook, L., (2001), The Portfolio Experience - More Than Just A Paper Exercise, Primary Health Care, 10(7), 38-41. Tracey, S., Marino, G., Richo, K. and Daly, E., (2000), The Clinical Achievement Portfolio - An Outcomes Based Assessment Project in Nursing Education, Nurse Educator, 25(5), 241-246. Way, R., (2002). Assessing Clinical Competence, Emergency Nurse, 9(9), 30-34. |
| Unit Texts: | Community Nurses Special Interest Group, (2001), Competency Standards for Community Health Nurses, 2nd ed., Perth, Health Department of Western Australia. Australian Nursing Federation, (1997), Competency Standards for the Advanced Nurse, Melbourne. |
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| Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Clinical competency evaluation and Professional portfolio. 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 | |
Current as of: February 2, 2004
CRICOS provider code 00301J
