Course Title: Practise in the rehabilitation nursing environment
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2013
Course Code: OHTH5538C
Course Title: Practise in the rehabilitation nursing environment
School: 155T Life & Physical Sciences
Campus: Bundoora Campus
Program: C5246 - Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled/Division 2 nursing)
Course Contact : Carylin Lenehan
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4837
Course Contact Email:carylin.lenehan@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 80
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
Not Applicable
Course Description
This competency unit describes the skills and knowledge required by Enrolled/Division 2 Nurses to perform nursing interventions to assist the person requiring rehabilitation to regain optimal function and lifestyle
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: |
HLTEN602A Practise in the rehabilitation nursing environment |
Element: |
1. Work as part of the multidisciplinary health care team for the client requiring rehabilitation 2. Clarify the impact of client's rehabilitation on the client and/or their family 3. Contribute to planning appropriate care for the client with a dysfunction 4. Implement care plan for the client with a dysfunction 5. Assist to evaluate the outcomes of planned nursing actions for the client with a dysfunction |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Contribute appropriately to support the role of the multidisciplinary health care team in the managing care of the client requiring rehabilitation 2.1 Perform a holistic assessment of the client in consultation/collaboration with the registered nurse 3.1 Use contemporary assessment tools accurately. 4.1 Ensure rehabilitation principles appropriately underpin nursing interventions for the client with a dysfunction 5.1 Monitor client's response to planned nursing interventions and progress toward planned goals and interventions, and document and report to the appropriate members of the health care team |
Learning Outcomes
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Details of Learning Activities
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Teaching Schedule
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Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
All powerpoints will be posted on student Blackboard
Overview of Assessment
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Assessment Tasks
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Assessment Matrix
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Other Information
Essential knowledge
The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role
This includes knowledge of:
• Admission and discharge process
• Age specific requirements
• Age specific requirements eg older adult, young adult, paediatric client
• Anatomy and physiology
• Client rights and responsibilities
• Community and In hospital Services available for clients requiring rehabilitation
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Diagnostic tests and their meanings
• Emergency and first aid management of complications of condition/injury
• Emergency and first aid management of condition/injuries
• Health - illness continuum
• Legal and ethical issues related to practice
• Legal and ethical issues related to practice
• Medical terminology
• Occupational health and safety legislation
• Organisation policy and procedure
• Participating as a member of the health care team
• Participating as a member of the health care team
• Performance of activities of daily living
• Phases of care for clients requiring rehabilitation
• Philosophy underpinning rehabilitative management
• Principles of health assessment
• Reflective practice
• Reflective practice
• Specialised in-depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology of conditions requiring rehabilitation
• Specialised knowledge of clinical manifestation of conditions requiring rehabilitation
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