Course Title: Implement, monitor and evaluate nursing care plans

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2018

Course Code: NURS5378C

Course Title: Implement, monitor and evaluate nursing care plans

School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science

Campus: Bundoora 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

 

Dianne Winters

Dianne.winters@rmit.edu.au

Kabaso Chitungulu

Kabaso.Chitungulu@rmit.edu.au

Jane McClure

Jane.McClure@rmit.edu.au

 

 

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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

Topics:

Introduction to the course 

Prepare a person for care procedures

Gaining a person’s consent

Cultural appropriate Care

 

 

WK 8

 

Nursing Care Plans; NANDA

Terminology

Nursing process

 

 

 

WK 9

 

 

 

 WK 10

 

Mobility

Recording, reporting to registered nurse using organisation policy and procedures

Evaluation of person’s progress towards planned outcomes as documented in care plan

 

 

WK 11

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

 

 

WK 12

 

 

 Lab 1: Basic Life Support

WK 13

 

Clinical Placement (CP1)

 

 

 

WK 14

Clinical Placement (CP1)

 

 

WK 15 

 

Basic Life Support

Using emergency codes and initiating basic life support

 

 

   

WK 16

 

Documentation

Progress Notes

 

 

 

Lab Session 2: basic life support

WK 17

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                  End of Semester 1 2018

Beginning of Semester 2 2018

WK 1

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

 

 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

 

 

 Lab Session 4- Nutrition

 

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

 

 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

 

 

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

 

 

Lab Session 7- Elimination

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

WK 11


Clinical Placement (CP2)

Advanced Aged Care

 Assessment Task 3: CP2  

WK 12


Clinical Placement (CP2)

Advanced Aged Care

   

WK 13

     

WK 14

  Assessment Task 4: Risk Case Study Due 2 weeks following CP2  

WK 15

     

WK 16

     

WK 17

     

WK 18

     

                                                                    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: Week 1 Semester 2 2018

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 2018

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

Performance Criteria

Related Assessment Task

 

Assessment 

Task 1

 

 Assessment 

Task 2

 

 

 Assessment 

Task 3

 

 

Assessment 

Task 4

 

 1.1

 

 

  x

x

 1.2

x

 

 

x

 2.1

 

 

 x

x

2.2 

 

 

x

x

2.3 

 

 

x

x

2.4

 

 x

 x

 

2.5

 

 

x

x

2.6

 

 x

x

 

2.7

 x

x

 

 

2.8 

 x

x

 

 

 3.1

 x

x

x

 

3.2  

  

 x

 x

 x

 

3.3    

 x

 

x

x

 4.1

 

 x

 x

 

 4.2

 

 

x

x

 4.3

 

 

x

x

 4.4

 

 

x

x

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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