Course Title: Implement and monitor nursing care for older clients
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2015
Course Code: NURS5289C
Course Title: Implement and monitor nursing care for older clients
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: Bundoora 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
Erica O’Donoghue
Email: Erica.ODonoghue@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9925 7573
Nominal Hours: 75
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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 |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Work within the scope of practice for the Enrolled/Division 2 nurse with the aged care client within any health care setting |
Element: |
2. Contribute to care plan development for the older person |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Assess the older client to determine their health status in consultation/collaboration with registered nurse |
Element: |
3. Assist to evaluate outcomes of planned nursing care of the older client |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Document responses of older client to nursing actions |
Element: |
4. Practise within the aged care environment |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Work with an understanding of the funding mechanisms impacting on aged care provision |
Element: |
5. Address contemporary issues in aged care practice |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 Work with an awareness of the current legal and ethical issues involved in aged care practice |
Element: |
6. Use strategies which relate to the progressive and variable nature of dementia |
Performance Criteria: |
6.1 Work with an awareness of dementia as a neurological condition |
Element: |
7. Develop and implement strategies to minimise impact of challenging behaviours |
Performance Criteria: |
7.1 Observe and document behaviours to determine triggers which may be related to: physical and emotional health; environment; tasks; and communication |
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
See matrix via Blackboard
Other Information
Please refer to the RMIT assessment policies for, special consideration, extensions of time, equitable assessment arrangements and future assessment adjustments. www.rmit.edu.au/browes:ID=ad)oagg9uc111
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Re-submission of assessment
One further opportunity to demonstrate Clinical Lab competence, will be provided to students if not deemed Satisfactory at the time of clinical assessment.
Re-submission of Written work, or other assessments , (once only. Excluding Exams) can be granted on recommendation from the teacher and approval by Program Coordinator.
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
Assessment Information
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