300717 (v.4) Health in Ageing 223

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	7.0
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 56 Hours Yearly
Prerequisite(s):	300721 (v.3) Primary Health Care Practice 122 or any previous version AND 300724 (v.3) Nursing and Midwifery Bioscience 243 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Principles and methodologies of client assessment using Gordon's functional health patterns. Communication and interaction across the lifespan. Nursing care related to hygiene, nutrition, elimination and pressure management. Physical, psychological and mental status assessment. Normal ageing processes. Attitudes to ageing. Principles guiding nursing care. Fundamental health mathematics and administration of topical, oral, medications. Simple wound management.
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:	060301 General Nursing
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Pass/Fail

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2009	Geraldton University Centre	Semester 1	Y
2009	Geraldton University Centre	Semester 2	Y
2009	Great Southern TAFE Albany	Semester 1	Y
2009	Great Southern TAFE Albany	Semester 2	Y

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Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

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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