Course Title: Contribute to the complex nursing care of clients

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2015

Course Code: NURS5323C

Course Title: Contribute to the complex nursing care of clients

School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences

Campus: City Campus

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

Course Contact: Jaye Keating

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4845

Course Contact Email: jaye.keating@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: 90

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

This unit must be assessed after successful achievement of pre-requisites:

  • HLTIN301C Comply with infection control policies and procedures
  • HLTEN507C Administer and monitor medication in the work environment
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Course Description

This competency unit describes the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to providing nursing care for clients with complex needs

The knowledge and skills described in this competency unit are to be applied within jurisdictional nursing and midwifery regulatory authority legislative requirements
Enrolled/Division 2 nursing work is to be carried out in consultation/collaboration with registered nurses and under direct or indirect supervisory arrangements in line with jurisdictional regulatory requirements


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

HLTEN505C Contribute to the complex nursing care of clients

Element:

1. Perform nursing interventions to assist client with complex needs

Element:

2. Advocate for clients in health and/or community settings

Element:

3. Contribute to the nursing care of clients with common disorders/conditions


Learning Outcomes


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


• Perform nursing interventions to assist client with complex needs
• Advocate for clients in health and community settings
• Contribute to the nursing care of clients with common disorders/conditions.
 


Details of Learning Activities

•Lecture
•Small Group Work
•Facilitated Class Discussion
•Self-directed learning
•Presentations
•Formal Classroom


Teaching Schedule

Lesson 1 Introduction & Diagnostic Tests

Lesson 2 Gastrointestinal

Lesson 3 Neurological Disorders

Lesson 4 Lab Theory

Lesson 5 Cardiac Disorders

Lesson 6 LabTheory

Lesson 7 Respiratory Disorders

Lesson 8 Sepsis

Lesson 9 Consolidation

Lesson 10 Lab Theory

Lesson 11 Burns

Lesson 12 Reproduction

Lesson 13 Anaphylaxis

Lesson 14 Special Senses

Lesson 15 Bleeding Disorders

Lesson 16 Skin & Headaches

Lesson 17 Consolidation


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

Kozier and Erbs ‘ Fundamentals of Nursing’. (2010). 1st edition. Pearson: Australia.

Tollefson,J. (2010). Clinical psychomotor skills: assessment tools for nursing students. (4th edition). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning.


References


Other Resources

All Powerpoints are posted to student blackboard


Overview of Assessment

Underpinning knowledge for this unit of competency will be assessed via the follwoing methods:

  • Written Examination / Written Assessment
  • Practical Assessment
  • Online module completion
  • Clinical Placement


Assessment Tasks

Laboratory Assessment 20%

Blood Safe LEarning Document 20%

Clinical Placement Assessment 20%

Written Examination 40%

60% on EACH assessment must be achieved

<45% student must re- enrol into course

45 – 50% a resit of the assessment will be considered

Please refer to student Timetable for dates and times of classes.


 


Assessment Matrix

See assessment matrix on Blackboard

Other Information

Re-submission of Assessment

Re-submission for students who have attempted to undertake assessment and attended all lab sessions will be given a further opportunity to demonstrate competence.

Re-submission may be granted on the recommendation of the teacher to the program coordinator.

Please refer to the RMIT assessment policies for special consideration, extensions of time, equitable assessment arrangements and future assessments adjustments: www.rmit.edu.au/browes:ID=ad)oagg9uc111

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a form of cheating in assessment and may occur in oral, written or visual presentations. It is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is your own: http://rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity

Turnitin

Is an online service, in to which teachers and students submit student assignments into a large database, via Blackboard, refer Turnitin website

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