300733 (v.2) Family Nursing Practice 325

Area:

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** 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. **

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Clinical Practice:

1 x 140 Hours Yearly

Prerequisite(s):

300729 (v.2) Adult Nursing Practice 224 or any previous version

Co Requisite(s):

300732 (v.2) Health Concepts in Family Care 315
AND
300734 (v.2) Behavioural Perspectives on Families 335
AND
300735 (v.2) Nursing Bioscience 345

Syllabus:

Antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum nursing care. Neonatal care. Infant feeding. Nutrition for children. Fluid management. Central lines and parenteral nutrition. Documentation and communication of care. Medication administration. Observations. Identification of abnormal symptomatology in children. Care of the child and family in hospital. Paediatric assessment. Nursing care for infants and children. Safety and harm reduction in children. Role parameters for nurse in maternal, paediatric and child health nursing. Parenting skills. Clients at risk.

** 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:

060307 Community Nursing

Funding Cluster:

12 - Nursing

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*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
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y			Y
2006	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 1	Y
2006	Geraldton University Centre	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