Course Title: Implement and monitor care for a person with acute health problems
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2022
Course Code: NURS5390C
Course Title: Implement and monitor care for a person with acute health problems
Important Information:
Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.
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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
Lee Vaessen
Nurse Educator/ Course Coordinator
Email: lee.vaessen@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 70
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 contribute to the care of the person with an acute health problem by performing clinical nursing skills and interventions that support the person’s health care needs and assist them to regain optimal function and lifestyle.
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: |
HLTENN011 Implement and monitor care for a person with acute health problems |
Element: |
1. Identify impact of acute health problems on a person, family or carer. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Identify actual and potential health issues of the person presenting with an acute health problem using information from a preliminary health assessment and in discussion with relevant interdisciplinary health care team members. 1.2 Explain to the person, family or carer the potential physical and psychological impacts of acute health problems on daily living activities. 1.3 Identify the pathophysiology of the person's underlying or presenting condition, and confirm with the person, family or carer. |
Element: |
2. Contribute to planning care for a person with acute health problems. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Contribute effectively to discussions about the care of the person with registered nurse and other members of the health team. 2.2 Gather information and accurately document and report changes in the person's condition to appropriate interdisciplinary health care team members. |
Element: |
3. Perform nursing interventions to support health care of a person with acute health problems. |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Assist in providing care for the person with a compromised airway including clearing of airways and interpreting health status using monitoring devices. 3.2 Provide care to the person requiring nutrition administered through a feeding tube or intravenous line. 3.3 Use critical thinking and problem-solving approaches in prioritising and modifying nursing interventions to reflect changes in the person's condition. 3.4 Contribute to the person's understanding of health care provided to assist them to regain optimal function through nursing interventions and health education. 3.5 Observe the person to identify any psychological support and care required due to the impact of acute health problems. 3.6 Ensure nursing interventions for pre- and post-procedure care for the person are in accordance with organisation policy and procedures. |
Element: |
4. Contribute to pre- and post-operative nursing care of a person. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Contribute to pre-operative nursing management of the person for specific surgical procedures. 4.2 Ensure pre-operative care takes into account the relationship between pre-operative care and post-operative complications. 4.3 Contribute to post-anaesthetic observation of the person following surgery including identifying deterioration when the person is not regaining consciousness. 4.4 Assist the person recovering from a range of anaesthesia to regain optimal health status, and take appropriate actions to reduce risks associated with immobility. 4.5 Promote the person's post-operative comfort using pain management strategies and nursing care actions. |
Element: |
5. Contribute to an emergency response in the acute care environment. |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 Identify and confirm the roles and responsibilities of members of the emergency response team. 5.2 Prepare and check emergency equipment. 5.3 Identify emergency situations and respond to first aid requests from emergency response team, including accessing and preparing drugs used during advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation. |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
This unit is designed to be delivered in a Blended Learning mode. Blended Learning involves learning through various modes, for example, learning in a classroom, simulated lab session, class peri-operative presentation, SDL and clinical placement.
The Blended Learning approach for this unit includes:
- Face to Face lectures 33hrs (10 x 3hrs lectures either on campus or online) Face-to-face lectures maybe delivered as online sessions due to COVID 19 restrictions.
- Simulated acute practise 6hrs (2 x 3hrs lab sessions)
- Tutorial (1hr x 2 sessions)
- Self directed learning 18hrs
Teaching Schedule
Syllabus Semester 2 2022 City and Bundoora (Epworth students scroll down to see your syllabus)
WEEK 2022 |
LESSON/LAB |
TOPIC |
ASSESSMENT |
Week 1 |
Lesson 1 |
Intro Acute Health Problems and Terminology |
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Week 2 |
Lesson 2 |
Acute Medical Problems PART A |
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Lesson 3 |
Acute Medical Problems PART B |
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Week 3 |
Lesson 4 |
Acute Medical Problems PART C |
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Compulsory Learning Activity. |
Due: 24th July 2022 |
Week 4 |
Lesson 5 |
Acute Trauma PART A |
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Lesson 6 |
Acute Trauma PART B |
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Week 5 |
Lesson 7 |
Operating Theatre PART A |
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Week 6 |
Lesson 8 |
Operating Theatre PART B |
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Week 7 |
Lesson 9 |
Cardio- Pulmonary arrest and Resuscitation |
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Week 8 |
Lesson 10 |
Revision |
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Week 9 |
TUT/LAB 1 |
Perioperative Care scenarios |
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Week 10 |
LAB 2 |
Tracheostomy care |
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ACUTE PPT Presentation |
Due: 13th September 2022 |
Week 12 |
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LAB ASSESSMENT TASK 3 - Simulated LAB Assessment |
Due: 27th September 2022 |
Week 13 |
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Resit Assessments if any. |
Week 15 - Week 19 |
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Clinical Placement |
Syllabus Semester 2 2022 Epworth
WEEK 2022 |
LESSON/LAB |
TOPIC |
ASSESSMENT |
Week 1 |
Lesson 1 |
Intro Acute Health Problems and Terminology |
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Week 2 |
Lesson 2 |
Acute Medical Problems PART A |
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Lesson 3 |
Acute Medical Problems PART B |
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Week 3 |
Lesson 4 |
Acute Medical Problems PART C |
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Compulsory Learning Activity |
Due: 24th July 2022 |
Week 4 |
Lesson 5 |
Acute Trauma PART A |
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Week 5 |
Lesson 6 |
Acute Trauma PART B |
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Week 8 |
Lesson 7 |
Operating Theatre PART A |
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Lesson 8 |
Operating Theatre PART B |
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Week 12 |
Lesson 9 |
Cardio- Pulmonary arrest and Resuscitation |
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TUT/LAB 1 |
Perioperative Care scenarios |
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Week 13 |
Lesson 10 |
Revision |
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LAB 2 |
Tracheostomy care |
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Week 14 |
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ACUTE PPT Presentation |
Due: 13th October 2022 |
Week 15 |
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LAB ASSESSMENT TASK 3 - Simulated LAB Assessment |
Due: 20th October 2022 |
Week 16 |
Simulated LAB Assessment RESITS |
Resit Assessments if any. |
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Week 18 - Week 19 |
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Clinical Placement |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Title: Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing Voulme I Author: Audrey Berman Co-author: Barbara Kozier, Glenora Lee Erb Publisher: Pearson Australia Year Published: 2015 |
9781486025794 |
Title: Tabbner's Nursing care Theory and Practice Author: Gabby Koutoukidis Co-author: Kate Stainton, Jodie Hughson Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences APAC Year Published: 2012 |
9780729581141 |
Title: Essential Enrolled nursing skills : for person-centered care Author: Gabriella Koutoukidis Co-author: Kate Stainton Publisher: Elsevier Australia Year Published: 2017 |
9780729542357 |
References
Title: Medical -surgical Nursing Author: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences APAC Year Published: 2007 |
1582558973 |
Title: Fundamentals of Nursing Author: Patricia Ann Potter Publisher: Mosby Year Published: 2013 |
9780323079334 |
Other Resources
The set texts for this course are:
1. Title: Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing Voulme I
Author: Audrey Berman
Co-author: Barbara Kozier, Glenora Lee Erb
Publisher: Pearson Australia
Year Published: 2015
2. Title: Tabbner's Nursing care Theory and Practice
Author: Gabby Koutoukidis
Co-author: Kate Stainton, Jodie Hughson
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences APAC
Year Published: 2012
3. Title: Essential Enrolled nursing skills : for person-centered care
Author: Gabriella Koutoukidis
Co-author: Kate Stainton
Publisher: Elsevier Australia
Year Published: 2017
4. Title: Medical -surgical Nursing
Author: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences APAC
Year Published: 2007
5. Title: Fundamentals of Nursing
Author: Patricia Ann Potter
Publisher: Mosby
Year Published: 2013
Classroom/online, AV equipment, computers, library access, observational checklists documented in students clinical skills log book and clinical placement.
Other resources:
NMBA website (Australian Nursing and Midwifery Board) - Code of Conduct, Code of Ethics, Standards of Practice for Enrolled Nurses documents
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care - the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards
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
Assessment Tasks
Assessment | |
Assessment 1 |
Knowledge Assessment |
Assessment 2 |
Group Presentation |
Assessment 3 |
Simulated Lab Assessment |
Assessment 4 |
Clinical Placement - Acute |
1. Assessment task 1: Knowledge assessment
This assessment task allows you to demonstrate your knowledge required to contribute to the care f the person with an acute health problem by performing clinical nursing skills and interventions that support the person’s health care needs and assist them to regain optimal function and lifestyle.
This is an individual task in which all questions must be answered at a SATISFACTORY level to be deemed satisfactory.This assessment task will be marked as (S) or (NS).
2. Assessment task 2: Group Presentation
This practical Group presentation assessment task is the second of four assessment tasks you need to complete satisfactorily, in order to be deemed competent for this unit. This assessment will allow you to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the peri-operative process. You will demonstrate an understanding of the needs of surgical patients and an understanding of a chosen surgical procedure.
This is a group task so it is expected that you will communicate and participate in the planning of the presentation with the other students. Any student who does not assist the group may be required to present individually. Though it is a group activity, each member of the group must contribute equally to this assessment task. 3.
This assessment task will be marked as (S) or (NS).
3. Assessment task 3: Simulation Assessment
This practical assessment task is the third of four assessment tasks you need to complete satisfactorily, in order to be deemed competent for this unit. This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to work safely with patients requiring preparation for the operating theatre. The highest risk of complications and stress for patients is poor pre-operative preparation. It is required that you can perform care in a safe and timely manner.
This assessment task will be marked as (S) or (NS).
4. Assessment task 4: Clinical Placement
This practical assessment task is the final of four assessment tasks you need to complete satisfactorily, in order to be deemed competent for this unit.
You will attend 2 weeks of clinical placement, placement is 2 weeks long.
This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to assess the person, describe how the assessment outcomes link to the pathophysiology of the persons condition and plan, implement and evaluate the care of a person with acute health issues.
This assessment task will be marked as (S) or (NS).
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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