Course Title: Contribute to nursing care of a person with complex needs
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2022
Course Code: NURS5380C
Course Title: Contribute to nursing care of a person with complex needs
Important Information:
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School: 535T Social Care and Health
Campus: Bundoora Campus
Program: C5365 - Diploma of Nursing
Course Contact: Queenie William (BU) / Rebecca Rose-Moore (CTY)
Course Contact Phone: Queenie: 99252346
Course Contact Email: queenie.william@rmit.edu.au / rebecca.rose-moore@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Course Lead
Raje Rajasekaran
raje.rajasekaran@rmit.edu.au
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
This unit will be delivered through a blended approach using a range of online learning (Canvas), face-to-face classroom sessions, practical lab sessions and clinical placement.
In this unit, you will learn the skills and knowledge required by enrolled nurses so that you are able to provide clinical nursing care for a person with complex needs and able to contribute to complex nursing interventions using critical thinking and problem-solving. You will apply these learned skills and knowledge when undertaking written and practical assessments, as well as, during supervised clinical placement with various industry partners.
Teaching Schedule
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Lesson/Lab |
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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
Student support
Your first point of contact for any support needs with your assessments should be your teacher and assessor. If you require further support, you should consider contacting the following support services at RMIT @ https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-supportLinks to an external site.
Assessment Adjustments
Students requiring support or adjustments for their formal assessments task or exams should contact Equitable Learning Services (ELS)Links to an external site., for more information on the types of adjustments provided, have a look at the adjustments to assessment websiteLinks to an external site..
Special consideration
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Appeals
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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
This assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including written, oral, and practical tasks and activities.
Assessment Task 1 - Knowledge Assessment
- This is an individual assessment where students are required to answer 39 questions online
Assessment Task 2 - Practical Assessment
Part A (ECG/Removal of IDC)
- Students will be required to demonstrate the above skills in a simulated lab environment
Part B (Venepuncture/ Neurological observation documentation)
- Students will be required to demonstrate the above skills in a simulated lab environment
Assessment Task 3 - Clinical Placement
- Students will attend the clinical placement and complete the required hours as per the Diploma of Nursing.
Students must pass each assessment task to demonstrate competence.
Assessment Matrix
Other Information
Prescribed Textbook
Year Published: 2017 or 2016 Edition
Title: Tabbner's nursing care: Theory and practice Creator Gabrielle Koutoukidis Contributor Kate Stainton author. Jodie Hughson author. Publisher Elsevier Australia a division of Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd Identifier (ISBN) 9780729542272 (ISBN) 0729542270Course Overview: Access Course Overview