Course Title: Implement and monitor care for a person with diabetes

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2021

Course Code: NURS5397C

Course Title: Implement and monitor care for a person with diabetes

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

Kabaso Chitungulu

kabaso.chitungulu@rmit.edu.au 

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 skills and knowledge required to provide nursing care to a person with diabetes including assessing needs, planning and implementing complex nursing interventions, evaluating outcomes, and educating the person on his/her condition and available resources.

 

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:	HLTENN025 Implement and monitor care for a person with diabetes
Element:	1. Identify diabetes care services in the Australian health care environment
Performance Criteria:	1.1 Provide current accurate information on diabetes care and sources of funding for related services to the person, the family or carer, and to colleagues 1.2 Identify specialist services and complementary roles of organisations and individuals involved in supporting and delivering diabetes care
Element:	2. Assess the needs of a person with diabetes
Performance Criteria:	2.1 Apply knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes 2.2 Perform holistic nursing assessment using a range of contemporary assessment tools, resources and strategies and incorporating review of the person’s history, current situation and treatment regimes 2.3 Determine the person’s current understanding of their condition, self-management strategies and medications 2.4 Identify possible factors impacting the person’s health or significant alterations in the person’s condition, based on own current knowledge of diabetes 2.5 Identify the family or carer’s understanding of and involvement in the person’s diabetes care, and how this might impact the person’s care planning and provision
Element:	3. Perform complex nursing interventions to assist a person to achieve and maintain optimal diabetes health
Performance Criteria:	3.1 Manage nursing workload according to a person’s needs and re-prioritise care activities for the person when circumstances change in consultation with registered nurse 3.2 Prepare the person’s care plan to ensure it reflects the complex care needs of a person with diabetes 3.3 Identify responses of the person, family or carer to nursing interventions and their understanding of ongoing management of the person’s condition, including strategies for self-management 3.4 Administer prescribed emergency medication based on sound knowledge of principles of drug actions and in accordance with organisation policies and procedures 3.5 Evaluate and interpret the person’s blood and urine test results related to their diabetic condition, and communicate findings to the interdisciplinary health care team 3.6 Liaise with registered nurses about alterations in the person’s condition while providing ongoing support of the person
Element:	4. Evaluate the care plan for a person with diabetes, and support a person's self-management
Performance Criteria:	4.1 Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team 4.2 Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in diabetes nursing care 4.3 Identify opportunities where indicated to provide the person, family or carer with information on available community resources and how to access them 4.4 Evaluate the person’s understanding of their diabetes condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management 4.5 Promote the person’s self-management of their condition and assist them to provide accurate information to their family or carer on their diabetes care needs 4.6 Document uptake by the person of specific health promotion initiatives to support their self-management

Learning Outcomes

Details of Learning Activities

 This unit is designed to incorporate a variety of learning methods including written, oral, practical tasks and activities.

The learning approach for this unit includes:

• Classroom face to face tutorials/Online Tutorials
• Laboratory sessions (2 x 3 hours), and
• Clinical experience  

Teaching Schedule

Week	Class title	Activity	Quiz
1	Lesson 1 Principles of applied anatomy & physiology, Diabetes Statistics Types of Diabetes	Face to face/Online  tutorial Complete AUSDRISK tool Class discussion
2	Lesson 2 Revision Diabetes Acute complications	Face to face /Online tutorial	Case Study
2	Lesson 3 Revision Chronic complications	Face to face /Online tutorial, class discussion.	Care Plan
3	Lesson 4 Revision Medications	Face to face /Online tutorial Class discussion	Quiz
4	Lesson 5, L6 Revision Health Promotion Goals	Face to face/Online tutorial Class discussion	Case Study
4		Lab 1 Practical Review of hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia, ketoacidosis. Practical demonstration of calibration of BGL machine. Testing for ketones.	Lab Assessment overview
5	Lesson 6 Medications	Fact to face /Online tutorial Class quiz Demonstration of equipment – insulin pens
6	LAB 2   Diabetes Assessment	Practical	Lab 2 Assessment Treatment and care of a patient presenting with hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia & ketoacidosis
11	Diabetes Revision	Diabetes Revision/Face to Face/Online	Diabetes Revision
12	Diabetes Written Knowledge Assessment	Diabetes Written Knowledge Assessment	Diabetes Written Knowledge Assessment

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

References

Other Resources

https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/57420/assignments/338016

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 3 overall assessments for this course.

You must be deemed satisfactory for each of these assessment tasks.

• Assessment  Task 1: Laboratory  Simulation 

 

• Assessment Task 2 : Written Knowledge Assessment

 

• Assessment Task 3: Clinical Placement

 

Assessment Matrix

Other Information

Prior to clinical placement you will be given a clinical skills log book, and this will be the record you will require for Assessment 3. 

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.

  

Please note an opportunity to repeat clinical placement is not guaranteed and will be at the discretion of the Clinical Coordinator/Program Manager.

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