Course Title: Implement, monitor and evaluate nursing care plans
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2018
Course Code: NURS5377C
Course Title: Implement, monitor and evaluate nursing care plans
School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5365 - Diploma of Nursing
Course Contact: Jaye Keating
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254845
Course Contact Email: jaye.keating@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Lou Roberts
Kabaso Chitungulu
Nominal Hours: 110
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
There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency
Course Description
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to implement nursing care as outlined in a person’s plan of care, evaluate outcomes of care provided, record and report progress, and respond to an emergency situation.
This course applies to enrolled nursing work carried out in consultation and collaboration with registered nurses, and under supervisory arrangements aligned to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia regulatory authority legislative requirements.
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
This course includes clinical placement
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTENN004 Implement, monitor and evaluate nursing care plans |
Element: |
1. Prepare a person for care procedures. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Explain the procedures, preparation required and timeframe involved and gain the person's consent. 1.2 Maintain the person's privacy and dignity and use a culturally appropriate approach during preparation and procedures. |
Element: |
2. Implement care procedures to meet identified needs. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Assist the person to address their personal and oral hygiene and their dressing and grooming needs in achieving health outcomes. 2.2 Identify contributing factors and implement appropriate strategies to prevent and manage skin breakdown. 2.3 Confirm the person's nutritional and elimination needs and apply strategies to meet identified needs. 2.4 Assist the person's respiratory function by demonstrating and promoting deep breathing and coughing exercises. 2.5 Use appropriate measures to promote the person's comfort, rest and sleep. 2.6 Actively encourage the person to contribute to their own independence and mobility through active and passive exercises. 2.7 Identify and respond appropriately to signs and symptoms of an emergency situation or condition. 2.8 Use emergency codes correctly and initiate basic life support according to organisation policy and procedures. |
Element: |
3. Monitor a person's identified care needs. |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Maintain ongoing assessment of the person through observation and by using monitoring equipment and devices. 3.2 Prioritise work activities to address the person's urgent needs, maintaining a balanced approach to own workload. 3.3 Record and report concerns in the person's condition or behaviour to the registered nurse, and report situations of risk according to organisation policy and procedures. |
Element: |
4. Evaluate outcomes of care provided. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Consult and collaborate with interdisciplinary team to identify and evaluate own contributions to the person's care. 4.2 Evaluate the person's progress towards planned outcomes as documented in the care plan. 4.3 Make required changes to nursing care plan in line with best practice in nursing. 4.4 Record and report all aspects of the evaluation of nursing care provided. |
Learning Outcomes
The critical learning for this course takes place in clinical placement within the health sector and within simulations in RMIT laboratories.
You will be instructed in skills through demonstration, modelling and role-play. Skills development is supported by lectures on theory and underpinning knowledge, classroom discussions, group work, research and reflective practice.
On completion of this course you should be able to:
- Prepare a person for care procedures.
1.1 Explain the procedures, preparation required and time-frame involved and gain the person’s consent.
1.2 Maintain the person’s privacy and dignity and use a culturally appropriate approach during preparation and procedures.
- Implement care procedures to meet identified needs.
2.1 Assist the person to address their personal and oral hygiene and their dressing and grooming needs in achieving health outcomes.
2.2 Identify contributing factors and implement appropriate strategies to prevent and manage skin breakdown.
2.3 Confirm the person’s nutritional and elimination needs and apply strategies to meet identified needs.
2.4 Assist the person’s respiratory function by demonstrating and promoting deep breathing and coughing exercises.
2.5 Use appropriate measures to promote the person’s comfort, rest and sleep.
2.6 Actively encourage the person to contribute to their own independence and mobility through active and passive exercises.
2.7 Identify and respond appropriately to signs and symptoms of an emergency situation or condition.
2.8 Use emergency codes correctly and initiate basic life support according to organisation policy and procedures.
- Monitor a person’s identified care needs.
3.1 Maintain ongoing assessment of the person through observation and by using monitoring equipment and devices.
3.2 Prioritise work activities to address the person’s urgent needs, maintaining a balanced approach to own workload.
3.3 Record and report concerns in the person’s condition or behaviour to the registered nurse, and report situations of risk according to organisation policy and procedures.
- Evaluate outcomes of care provided.
4.1 Consult and collaborate with interdisciplinary team to identify and evaluate own contributions to the person’s care.
4.2 Evaluate the person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in the care plan.
4.3 Make required changes to nursing care plan in line with best practice in nursing.
4.4 Record and report all aspects of the evaluation of nursing care provided.
Details of Learning Activities
Learning Activities
All learning activities you will undertake within the course are designed to provide you with the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to perform to the standard expected in the health industry.
Learning activities include:
Face to Face tutorials – introduce you to the key concepts within the course
Practical Labs – provide an opportunity to practise your skills in a simulated work environment
Online Activities – provide you with formative feedback and facilitate your learning as you progress through your learning.
Self Directed Learning- Allows students to consolidate knowledge through further reading and activities Clinical placement – provides you with practical experience in a nursing workplace.
Teaching Schedule
Week |
Lesson Content |
Assessment |
Lab Sessions |
WK 7 |
Lesson 1: Introduction to the course Prepare a person for care procedures Gaining a person’s consent Cultural appropriate Care |
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WK 8 |
Lesson 2: Nursing Care Plans; NANDA Terminology Nursing process |
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WK 9 |
Clinical Placement (CP1) |
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WK 10 |
Clinical Placement (CP1)
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WK 11 |
Lesson 3:
Mobility Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan |
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WK 12 |
Lesson 4:
Manual handling and Falls prevention Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan |
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WK 13 |
Lesson 5: Basic Life Support Using emergency codes and initiating basic life support
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WK 14 |
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Lab 1: Basic Life Support |
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Lab Session 2: basic life support | |
WK 16 |
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End of Semester 1 2018 | |||
Beginning of Semester 2 2019 | |||
WK 1 |
Documentation Progress Notes
Personal Hygiene and Grooming Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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AT1: BLS practical conducted in simulated clinical lab RMIT |
Lab Session 3 (AT1 practical lab assessment) |
WK 2 |
Promoting Sleep and Rest Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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Lab Session 4- Nutrition
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WK 3 |
Nutrition Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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AT2: Case Study is due online |
Lab Session 5- Respiratory care |
WK 4 |
Respiratory 1 Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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Lab Session 6- cardiovascular care |
WK 5 |
Respiratory 2 Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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Lab Session 7- Elimination
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WK 6 |
Circulatory 1 Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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Lab Session 8- Pain management |
WK 7 |
Circulatory 2 Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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WK 8 |
Urinary Elimination Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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Lab Session 9: WARD DAY |
WK 9 |
Bowel Elimination Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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WK 10 |
Pain Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan
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WK 11 |
Clinical Placement (CP2) Advanced Aged Care |
Assessment Task 3: CP2 | |
WK 12 |
Clinical Placement (CP2) Advanced Aged Care |
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WK 14 |
Assessment Task 4: Risk Case Study Due 2 weeks following CP2 | ||
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End of Semester 2 2018 |
TIMETABLE AND PLACEMENT TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
2018 Recommended Text
(Books can be purchased or accessed in Library and on line via the Library)
- Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 4th edition, (2014) Brown, D., Edwards, H., Seaton, L., & Buckley, T. (1st and 2nd year)
- Nursing Diagnosis Handbook An Evidence-based Guide to Planning Care, 11th edition, (2017) Ackley, B., Ladwig, G., & Flynn Makic, M. (1st and 2nd year)
- Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice, 7th edition, (2016), Koutoukidis, G., Stainton,K., & Hughson, J. (1st and 2nd year)
Overview of Assessment
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Practical Assessment of Basic Life Support
Assessment Task 2: Case Study and Nursing Care plan
Assessment Task 3: Clinical Placement
Assessment Task 4: Report on Nursing Care plan evaluation
You will be provided with an assessment overview for the course and a descriptor for each assessment task.
Feedback is provided on each assessment.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Simulation on an emergency and performance of Basic Life Support
Due Date: Lab 3
You will perform basic life support in a simulated environment on an adult, child and an infant manikin. You will be observed by an RMIT assessor and feedback will be provided by your tutor.
Assessment Task 2: Risk identification and prevention Case Study
Due Date: Week 3 Semester 2 2019
You will be required to develop, implement and monitor a plan of care using the information provided in a case study for this assessment.
Assessment Task 3: Observation of Performance in Advanced Aged Care clinical placement CP2 and CP3
Due Date: Designated Clinical Placement Weeks
You will be observed by an RMIT Clinical facilitator and feedback will be provided.
Assessment Task 4: Report on the evaluation of a plan of care -(Advanced Aged Care) Clinical Placement 2
Due Date: Two weeks following your CP2 (Advanced Aged Care) Clinical Placement
This assessment requires you to report on an evaluation of a plan of care that you have conducted in placement.
You will be required to evaluate a nursing care plan of a patient in your Advanced Aged Care Clinical placement.
This assessment will be written in a report style and submitted online
You needed to be graded satisfactory on all assessments to be deemed competent in this course.
Assessment Matrix
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Other Information
Other Information
Please refer to the RMIT Student Page for extensive information about study support, assessments, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students
Placement
Please note an opportunity to repeat clinical placement is not guaranteed and will be at the discretion of the Clinical Coordinator/Program Manager.
Special Consideration
Use the special consideration process if your circumstances are such that you cannot fulfil assessment requirements. For example, if you are unable to complete any piece of assessment by a due date, you will need to apply for an extension.
Re submissions
You are permitted to have a maximum of 2 re-submissions for this course, however each individual assessment may only be resubmitted once. Re submissions are not automatic and will only be approved at the discretion of the program coordinator after consultation with the teacher.
All re submissions must be completed and submitted no more than 7 days after your work has been assessed.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
RMIT has a strict policy on plagiarism and academic integrity. Please refer to: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity for more information.
Working with Children Check and Police Check
This course requires a Working with Children Check and Police Check
Attendance
You are required to attend all sessions in order to engage in the required learning activities and ensure the maximum opportunity to gain competency.
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