Course Title: Contribute to nursing care of a person with complex needs
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2021
Course Code: NURS5379C
Course Title: Contribute to nursing care of a person with complex needs
School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5365 - Diploma of Nursing
Course Contact: Rosemarie Russell
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 7478
Course Contact Email: rosemarie.russell@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Course Coordinator: Eleisha Petdro
Contact email: eleisha.petdro@rmit.edu.au
Bundoora Campus
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
There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency.
Course Description
This course of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to provide clinical nursing skills for a person with complex needs and to contribute to complex nursing interventions using critical thinking and problem-solving.
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: |
HLTENN005 Contribute to nursing care of a person with complex needs |
Element: |
1. Perform nursing interventions to assist a person with complex needs. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Perform nursing interventions based on the person's predetermined plan of care. 1.2 Undertake nursing interventions demonstrating respect for the person's dignity and cultural diversity. 1.3 Encourage the person to assist by undertaking aspects of their own care during care interventions. 1.4 Consider the person's physical, emotional and psychosocial needs when performing nursing interventions. |
Element: |
2. Contribute to the nursing care of people with common disorders and conditions |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Provide nursing care to the person appropriate to the management of complex conditions. 2.2 Observe, report and document the person's reactions and responses to the provided care management and medication. 2.3 Refer promptly to the registered nurse any reactions, responses or variations from the normal or unexpected outcomes, including concern for the deteriorating person. |
Element: |
3. Use critical thinking to improve care quality |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Monitor own thinking constantly in relation to own clarity, precision, accuracy, consistency, logic and significance of care, in order to correct oneself when appropriate in the context of caring for a person. 3.2 Identify possible nursing interventions for a person with complex needs, based on health information and clinical presentation. 3.3 Raise the issue with the registered nurse where the nursing interventions are at odds with an already prescribed course of action by multidisciplinary team. 3.4 Explain clearly the reasoning behind specific decisions and actions being taken in the context of the health care of the person. 3.5 Identify areas for quality improvement including to organisation processes in the care of a person with complex needs. |
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.
Details of Learning Activities
All learning activities you will undertake within the course are designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge required to perform to the standard expected in the health industry.
Learning activities include:
Online theory classroom sessions
Face to Face tutorials - including practical lab session to introduce you to the key concepts and skills within the course
Online Activities - provide you with formative feedback and facilitate your learning as you progress through your course
Clinical placement - provide you with practical experience in a nursing environment.
Teaching Schedule
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Week
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Lesson/Lab |
Topic |
Assessment/Learning Activities |
Week 1 |
Lesson 1
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Week 2 |
Lesson 2
Lab 1 |
Revision of Lesson 1.
Lab 1 & Lab 2: Removal of IDC & ECG Skills Removal of IDC
ECG Skills
student practice: ECG and r/o IDC
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Week 3 |
Lesson 3 |
Revision of Lesson 2
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Week 4 |
Lesson 4
LAB 2 |
Revision of Lesson 3
Lab 1 & Lab 2: Removal of IDC & ECG Skills Removal of IDC
ECG Skills
student practice: ECG and r/o IDC |
Assessment Task 1 - Part A : Knowledge Assessment
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Week 5 |
Lesson 5 |
Revision of Lesson 4
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Week 6 |
LAB ASSESSMENT
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Assessment Task 2 - Part A :
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Week 7 |
Lesson 6 |
Revision of Lesson 5
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Week 8 |
Lesson 7 |
Revision of Lesson 6
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SDL |
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Week 9 |
LAB 3
Lesson 8 |
Lab 3 and 4 – Venepuncture & Neurological Observations Venepuncture:
Neuro Obs
Revision of Lesson 7
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Assessment Task 1 - Part B: Knowledge Assessment
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Week 10 |
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
LAB 4 |
Revision of Lesson 8
Revision of Lesson 9
Lab 3 and 4 – Venepuncture & Neuro Obs Venepuncture:
Neuro Obs
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Week 11 |
Lesson 11 |
Revision of Lesson 10 |
Assessment Task 1 - Part C: Knowledge Assessment
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Week 12 |
LAB ASSESSMENT |
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Assessment Task 2 - Part B :
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Assessment Task 3: Clinical Placement
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Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Year Published: 2015
Title: Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Volume 1
Creator: Audrey Berman (Links to an external site.)
Contributor: Barbara Kozier - author, (Links to an external site.)Glenora Lea Erb 1937- author. (Links to an external site.)
Edition: Third Australian EditionPublisher: Pearson Australia
Subjects: Nursing -- Australia -- Textbooks (Links to an external site.)ISBN: 9781486020027 (v. 1 : paperback)
Potter & Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing. (Links to an external site.)
Tabbner’s Nursing Care - Theory & Practice (Links to an external site.)
Use the Library Subject Guide (Links to an external site.) to access useful texts for this course. Additional readings, where required, have been provided in downloadable PDFs or as a direct link as a digital copy in the RMIT library.
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Overview of Assessment
This assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including written, oral, practical tasks and activities.
You will be asked to personally demonstrate to your teacher/assessor the practical skills gained during this course to the relevant industry standards. Assessment activities will occur throughout this course and feedback will be provided at regular intervals
Students must pass each assessment task to demonstrate competence.
Assessment Tasks
You will need to achieve Satisfactory (S) for all assessment tasks to gain over all Competent (CA) for this course.
Assessment Task 1: Knowledge Assessment
This Assessment Task is a 3 part knowledge assessment completed periodically throughout the semester.
Assessment Task 2: Complex Practical Simulation Assessment
You will need to successfully complete practical lab assessments for the following skills
- Part A: IDC Removal & ECG Skills
- Part B: Venepuncture & Neuro Obs (neurological observations to recognise a deteriorating person)
Assessment Task 3: Clinical Placement
You will need successfully complete Clinical Placement 5.
You will need to be graded satisfactory (S) on all assessment tasks to be deemed competent for this course.
Assessment Matrix
Other Information
Please refer to the RMIT student Page for extensive information about study support, assessments, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/contact-and-help/support-services
Attendance
You are to attend all sessions in order to engage in the required learning activities, ensure the maximum opportunity and gain competency in the course.
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 must be competent in all elements to successfully complete the course
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 our work has been assessed.
Please note an opportunity to repeat clinical placement is not guaranteed and will be at the discretion of the clinical Coordinator/Program Manager.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
RMIT has a strict policy on plagiarism and academic integrity. Please refer to
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/rights-and-responsibilities/academic-integrity
Working with Children Check and Police Check
This course requires a Working with Children Check and Police Check
Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer
If you think you have some or all of the knowledge and competencies described, please discuss the Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer options with may be available to you with your Course Coordinator:
For more information go to:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/search?q=prior+learning
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