Courses Handbook 2010

313091 (v.1) Nursing Practice 566


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

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