Courses Handbook 2008

309704 (v.1) Health in Ageing Nursing Specialisation 562


Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 50.0
** 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. **
Syllabus: Normal and abnormal ageing. Wellness to illness health continuum. Growth, development across the adult lifespan. Diagnostic-reasoning. Assessment, diagnosis, planning, management, evaluation, and consultation. Interdisciplinary practice. Family centred practice and welfare. Evidence based clinical decision-making. Case management for acute, post-acute, chronic and complex illness and disability health needs. High and low level long term care. Nursing practice relevant to older people and their families.
** 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: 060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1       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

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