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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.

313292 (v.1) Health and Wellbeing in Older People 467

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Other: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Global/national context of ageing and associated implications for health; changes associated with ageing; perspectives of ageing, including ageism and stigma; cultural diversity in ageing; communication challenges associated with ageing; health challenges; inter-professional care; holistic nursing assessment and best practice interventions relevant to wellbeing (physical, mental, and psychosocial) also including reference to cognitive status; care continuum, including community, institutional and transition care; philosophy of nursing care including palliative, person and family centred approaches; ethical and legal concerns related to ageing.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    
2012 Geraldton University Centre Semester 1 Y        
2012 Geraldton University Centre Semester 2 Y        
2012 Great Southern TAFE Albany Semester 1 Y        
2012 Great Southern TAFE Albany 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