Courses Handbook 2008

311293 (v.1) Nursing Practice 561


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 112 Hours Once-only
Co Requisite(s): 311294 (v.1) Nursing Bioscience 561 or any previous version
Syllabus: Principles and methodologies of client assessment using Gordon's Functional Health Pattern. Therapeutic communication and interaction. Principles of nursing care: hygiene, nutrition, elimination and pressure care management. Physical, psychological and mental status assessment. Normal ageing processes. Attitudes to ageing. Fundamental health mathematics and administration of topical, oral, medications. 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: 060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 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

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