311572 (v.1) Living with Diabetes 512

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
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 2 Hours Weekly
Individual Study:	1 x 6 Hours Weekly
Seminar:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	The focus of this unit is on supporting self-management of diabetes. Syllabus includes: blood glucose monitoring, nutrition guidelines, medical nutrition therapy, exercise metabolism, physical activity, medication administration skills, initiation and adjustment needs, sick day management, hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia self-management, dental care, sexual health, special needs groups, including children, adolescents, pregnant women and babies, elderly, Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse people, travel, driving and surgical operative care needs and complementary therapies, behavioural responses to illness and diabetes and mental health assessment.
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:	060101 General Medicine
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Essential *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1				Y
2010	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