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

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2023

Course Code: NURS5397C

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

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.  

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Please check your Canvas course shell closer to when the course starts to see if this course requires mandatory in-person attendance. The delivery method of the course might have to change quickly in response to changes in the local state/national directive regarding in-person course attendance.  

 

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 Co-ordinator - Eleisha Petdro

email: eleisha.petdro@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 1.3 Liaise with referring agencies and community organisations when providing 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

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:

Face to face classes and activities

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

Self- Directed Learning

Clinical placement - provide you with practical experience in a nursing environment.

 

 


Teaching Schedule

Week

Class title

Labs

Assessment

1

Lesson 1

  • Introduction to diabetes anatomy & physiology,
  • Statistics

Tutorial and lab

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

Lesson 2

  • Revision
  • Presentations
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Assessment
  • Complications

 

Tutorial and lab

 

 

3

 

 

Lesson 3

  • Revision
  • Chronic complications
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Management
  

Assessment Task 2 - Simulation commences 

5

 

Lesson 4

  • Revision
  • Medications

 

Assessment Task 2 - Simulation continues

6

Lesson 5

  • Revision
  • Health Promotion Goals

 

  

7

 Lesson 6

  • Revision
  • Environmental and social factors impacting diabetes 
  • Impacts on psychosocial health and self-esteem
  • Additional considerations e.g. surgical management
  • Final revision and questions

 

 

 

TBC

 

 

 Assessment Task 1 - Knowledge Assessment

 

Assessment Task 3 - Clinical Placement

 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

Human Anatomy and Physiology, 10th edition, (2015), Marieb, E & Hoehn, K. 

Tabbner's Nursing Care: Theory and Practice, 7th edition, (2016), Koutoukidis, G., Stainton,K., & Hughson, J.                                                    

Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 4th edition, (2014) Brown, D., Edwards, H., Seaton, L., & Buckley, T.                                                                       


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 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 Task 1 Knowledge Assessment
Assessment Task 2 Simulation
Assessment Task 3 Clinical Placement

 


Assessment Matrix

Other Information

Resubmissions are not automatic and will only be approved at the discretion of the program coordinator after consultation with the teacher.

You are permitted to have a maximum of 1 resubmission for knowledge assessments and 2 resubmission for practical assessments.

All resubmissions 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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