Course Title: Apply nursing practice in the primary health care setting
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2022
Course Code: NURS5395C
Course Title: Apply nursing practice in the primary health care setting
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: City 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
Mini George
Nominal Hours: 80
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 nursing skills and knowledge required to work in a primary health care environment including community-based, educational, occupational and informal settings, and in general practice.
Primary health care involves a person-centred and holistic approach to health care. It is made accessible to people by being located as close as possible to where they live, and supporting their full participation in a spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.
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: |
HLTENN015 Apply nursing practice in the primary health care setting |
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1. Work as part of an interdisciplinary health care team in a primary health care environment |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Apply principles of primary health care and work within the philosophical framework supporting primary health care system 1.2 Identify the primary health care service model and the roles and professional expertise of various members of the interdisciplinary health care team 1.3 Undertake effective decision-making and initiate action based on results of clinical assessment and in collaboration with various members of the interdisciplinary health care team |
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2. Recognise impact of a health problem on a person in the primary health care environment |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Define health issues for the community or target group of the primary health care service, and reflect this knowledge in own work 2.2 Recognise clinical manifestations of health conditions affecting the health status of the person requiring primary health care 2.3 Review the person’s records to determine priorities and potential areas of risk for implementation of primary health care 2.4 Discuss information gained from assessment of the person with appropriate members of the interdisciplinary health care team 2.5 Discuss the physical, psychological and social impacts of a health problem on daily living activities with the person and, with the person’s consent, with family or carer 2.6 Identify actual or potential environmental health issues impacting the person requiring primary health care in consultation and collaboration with the registered nurse |
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3. Provide health education and health promotion for illness prevention |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Identify health literacy issues that potentially inhibit the person’s capacity to access, understand, evaluate and communicate information to maintain and improve their health 3.2 Adopt strategies to support the person’s capacity to gain and understand information 3.3 Support the person to engage in illness prevention through health promotion programs to meet the person’s needs 3.4 Contribute to health policy in the primary health care environment and participate in health education programs for the person and community groups |
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4. Perform nursing interventions that support a person's health care needs |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Ensure nursing interventions reflect the person’s needs and individuality including considering cultural, religious, age and gender issues and the person’s physical, psychological and social needs 4.2 Implement nursing interventions using respectful practices that also support the person’s dignity and privacy 4.3 Encourage the person, family or carer to assist with the person’s self-care care as appropriate 4.4 Plan and adjust nursing interventions to assist the person to meet their daily living activities 4.5 Identify and prioritise nursing interventions according to the person’s needs 4.6 Initiate appropriate first aid and other emergency treatment according to organisation policy and procedure |
Element: |
5. Evaluate outcomes of planned primary health care and promote suitable resources |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 Monitor, evaluate and document the person’s response to nursing interventions and their progress toward primary health goals, and report findings to relevant interdisciplinary health care team 5.2 Identify community and other resources to match the person’s needs, and provide the person, family or carer with information on available resources and how to access them |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
The learning activities designed in this course will equip you to develop the nursing skills and knowledge required to work in a primary health care environment including community-based, educational, occupational and informal settings, and in general practice.
The Blended Learning approach for this unit includes:
- Classroom lectures and tutorials,
- Practical lab sessions
- Clinical experience
Teaching Schedule
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- Introduction, discussion and resources for assessment tasks 1,2 & 3 |
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Week 3 |
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Week 5
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Lab Session as per allocation. |
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Week 6
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Week 7 |
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Lab Session as per allocation. Week 8 - Assessment Task 1 - Due |
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Week 11
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- Lab Assessment - Assessment task 2 - First Aid Management and Care - Simulated scenarios in the Nursing Lab |
Week 13 |
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- Resit Lab Session
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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-support (Links to an external site.)
Special consideration
If unexpected circumstances affect your ability to complete an assessment you can apply for special consideration. For more information have a look at RMIT's special consideration (Links to an external site.) page.
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
Assessment Tasks
There are Three key assessments that you will need to successfully complete in order to be assessed as competent in this unit.
HLTENN015-AT1 of 3: Knowledge Assessment
This short-answer assessment task is one of three assessment tasks you need to complete satisfactorily, in order to be deemed competent for this unit. The answers must be uploaded to CANVAS via Turnitin.
Assessment will be a series of short answer questions uploaded onto canvas using Turnitin.
HLTENN015-AT2 of 3: Practical Assessment - First Aid management and care
This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to initiate appropriate first aid and other emergency treatment according to organization policy and procedure.
You will attend 3 first aid scenarios allocated by your Assessor. You
will act as first responder, performing the necessary first aid until help arrives. Your Assessor will act as the attending paramedic and you will hand-over your actions in a verbal ISBAR response each time.
HLTENN015-AT3 of 3: Clinical placement
You will attend 2 weeks of clinical placement, placement is 2 weeks long. This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to work as a member of the primary health care team, assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care for a person in the primary health care setting and provide patient education.
Assessment Matrix
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