Course Title: Implement and monitor nursing care for older clients

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2015

Course Code: NURS5288C

Course Title: Implement and monitor nursing care for older clients

School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5313 - Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled-Division 2 Nursing)

Course Contact: Leeanne Mond

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4837

Course Contact Email: leeanne.mond@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Program Coordinator: Pamela Maher

Email: Pamela.maher@rmit.edu.au

Phone: +61 3 9925 4299

Nominal Hours: 75

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

NIL PRE REQUISITES

This unit is delivered in collaboration with HLTEN502B Apply Effective Communication Skills in Nursing Practice

                            HLTEN511B Provide nursing Care for clients requiring palliative care.

Course Description

This competency unit describes the skills and knowledge required for the Enrolled/Division 2 Nurse to perform nursing interventions to support the health care needs of the older person in both acute care settings and residential aged care environments.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

HLTEN515B Implement and monitor nursing care for older clients

Element:

1. Respond to the special health requirements of the older adult

Element:

2. Contribute to care plan development for the older person

Element:

3. Assist to evaluate outcomes of planned nursing care of the older client

Element:

4. Practise within the aged care environment

Element:

5. Address contemporary issues in aged care practice

Element:

6. Use strategies which relate to the progressive and variable nature of dementia

Element:

7. Develop and implement strategies to minimise impact of challenging behaviours

Learning Outcomes


At the end of this unit students should be able to:

  • Respond to the special health requirements of the older adult
  • Contribute to the development of a care plan for the older person
  • Assist to evaluate outcomes of planned nursing care of the older client
  • Practise within the aged care environment
  • Address contemporary issues on aged care practice
  • Use strategies which relate to the progressive and variable nature of dementia
  • Develop and implement strategies to minimise the impact of challenging behaviours
     


Details of Learning Activities

·   Classroom Delivery

·   Self Directed Learning

·   Laboratories

·   Clinical Placement Hours 


Teaching Schedule

Lesson 1: Effective Communication

Lesson 2: Roles of Healthcare

Lesson 3: Conflict resolution

Lesson 4:  Open Disclosure

Lesson 5:  Assessment 1 Questionnaire

Lesson 6:  Theory of Ageing

Lesson 7:  Disease Process:

Lesson 8:  Activities of Daily Living

Lesson 9:  ACAS/ACAT

Lesson 10: Care Planning

Lesson 11:  Aged Care Funding Instrument

Lesson 12:  Complex Issues

Lesson 13:  Massage in Palliative Care

Lesson 14:  Dementia

Lesson 15:  Needs Recognition

Lesson 16:  Symptoms of Dying

Lesson 17:  Loss & Grief

Lesson 18:  Last Rites

 

Computer Lab 1.   Computer IT Lab

Nursing Lab 2.   Activities of Daily Living - Part 1 &  2

Nursing Lab 3.   Remedial Massage in Palliative care - Part 1 & 2

Nursing Lab 4.  Documentation

Nursing Lab 5.  Pain  Part 1, Last Rites Part 2


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

Kozier and Erb’s (2014) 3rd ed.,Vols 1,2,3.Fundamentals of nursing. Pearson. Australia


References

Listed within PowerPoint slides and Blackboard


Other Resources

Other Textbooks 

Accessible as eBooks via the RMIT Library (also able for download or purchase)

Brown, D., Edwards, H. (eds) 2014, 4th ed., Lewis’s medical surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems, Marrickville, NSW,  Elsevier Australia

Tollefson, J., (2014) Clinical Psychomotor skills: assessment tools for nursing students. 5th ed.,South Melbourne. Centgage Learning

Additional resources:

Online via RMIT Blackboard (students require frequent access to computers, internet and printing facilities)


Overview of Assessment

Underpinning knowledge for this unit of competency will be assessed via teh following methods:

  • Written Assessment
  • Practical Assessment
  • Clinical Placement


Assessment Tasks

·         Lab computer hurdle

·         Classroom presentation

·         Group work – Care Plan

·         MP4 video assessment


Assessment Matrix

Submitted Assessments will be awarded  “Satisfactory”  or  “Not Satisfactory”.

All assessments must have a   Satisfactory  grade in order to be deemed competent in this cluster unit.

Assessment tasks will be assessed in conjunction with HLTEN502B and HLTEN511B.

Other Information

Classroom attendance is recommended 

100% attendance for Labs

100% attendance for Clinical Placements

Resubmission of Assessments will be at the discretion of Teaching Staff.

Cluster unit must have a competency  grade awarded before commencing phase 2 of the program

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