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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

307488 (v.1) Nurse Practitioner Internship 562

Note

Tuition Patterns

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.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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.

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Laboratory: 1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Clinical Practice: 1 x 16.66 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     13152 (v.3) Health Research Methods 681 or any previous version
    OR
    301950 (v.4) Research and Evaluation in International Health 600 or any previous version
    OR
    4712 (v.3) Qualitative Methods in Health Research 582 or any previous version
AND
307483 (v.1) Professional Foundations 561 or any previous version
AND
307484 (v.2) Advanced Diagnostics 561 or any previous version
AND
    307485 (v.1) Pharmacology 521 or any previous version
    OR
    312195 (v.1) Pharmacology 522
AND
    307487 (v.2) Pharmacotherapeutics 522 or any previous version
    OR
    312169 (v.1) Pharmacotherapeutics 524 or any previous version
AND
    311225 (v.1) Clinical Leadership 561 or any previous version
    OR
    307486 (v.1) Nursing Leadership 571 or any previous version
Syllabus: Clinical practice, policies, protocols. Competency standards, professional guidelines, portfolio, registration. Accountability, law, ethics, cultural security and social justice. Diagnostic process and clinical decision-making. Assessment, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, quality use of medicines, management of chronic and self-limiting acute disease. Interdisciplinary collaboration and communication. Referral, clinical leadership and management. Integration of research evidence into practice.
Field of Education: 060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 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