NRS430 Clinical Nursing Practice 4 (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health (NRMIH)
Duration: One sesssion
Abstract:
This subject accompanies two courses that prepare students to nurse people when they need support to optimise their health in settings where tertiary health care is provided. Students undertaking this course will undertake 320 hours clinical practice in primary, secondary and tertiary health care settings in a supernumerary capacity under the supervision of an RN.
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No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2013.Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details prior to contacting their course coordinator: NRS430
Where differences exist between the handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Assumed Knowledge:
NRS304 and NRS308 and NRS426 and NRS425
Enrolment restrictions:
Enrolment in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
be able to practice at a competent beginning RN level, delivering reflective, evidence based, culturally safe primary health care nursing in all settings.
be able to meet the CNO Entry to Practice competencies.
be able to deliver care that is consistent with the CNO Code of Professional Conduct and Standards of Ethics and relevant legal requir
be able to demonstrate and maintain (100%) mastery of prerequisite math
be able to competently assess, plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care for people with chronic and complex health probl
be able to competently assess, plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care for families, children or adolescents.
be able to apply and evaluate critical thinking and reflection in the context of nursing.
be able to apply and evaluate planning, probl
be able to integrate and independently apply, with direction, knowledge, skills and principles for clinical reasoning in nursing practice.
be able to work collaboratively in a nursing and inter-professional health care team in a variety of settings.
be able to apply, with minimal direction, interpersonal and therapeutic communication skills in a variety of health care settings.
be able to apply the principles of effective oral presentation skills in a variety of formal group settings.
be able to safely complete, with minimal supervision, the nursing documentation required in a variety of health care settings.
be able to demonstrate consistent application of formal writing skills and evidence of critical thinking, in a variety of genres.
be able to use technology expertly to aid research and present information in a professional manner, consistent with organisational requir
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
1. Assessment of people with disabilities and/or chronic illness in various health care settings (eg. mental health, community health, rehabilitation, palliative care, special schools):
(a) cognitive function
2. Habilitation, rehabilitation and/or palliation in various health care settings (eg. mental health, community health, rehabilitation, palliative care, special schools):
(a) education (eg. health status and treatment, medications, self-care, assistive devices)
3. Technical procedures for people with disabilities or chronic illness when they are unable to perform such procedures for themselves:
(a) wound care
4. Referral to government and non-government funded services:
(a) diabetic educators
5. Multidisciplinary health care teams (eg. with nurses, allied health care providers, medical officers, psychologists, special school teachers).
6. Demonstrate ability to nurse childbearing women, neonates and/or children:
6. Demonstrate ability to nurse childbearing women, neonates and/or children:
(a) assessment of nursing childbearing women, neonates and/or children (eg. DRABC, APGAR, postnatal check, body weights)
(b) diagnostic tests for nursing childbearing women, neonates and/or children (eg. CTGs, neonatal screening, hearing tests and glycaemic assessment.
(c) basic and advanced life support
(d) educating parents to bath a child/neonate
(e) assisting with breastfeeding
(f) assisting parents to prepare artificial feeds
(g) assisting with enteral feeding of a neonate/child
(h) nursing a neonate who is undergoing phototherapy
(i) assisting with discharge of mother/child (eg. midwives collection data, blue book)
(j) assisting with administration of IMI and IVI Syntocinon
(k) working within a multidisciplinary health care team
(l) provide holistic nursing care
(m) administering medications and/or transfusions of fluid/blood products
(n) chart and document patient care
(o) discharge planning (eg. patient appointments, medications, community support requirements)
(p) solving clinical problems
(q) managing workload of a beginning level RN.
7. Clinical quality and safety:
(a) clinical governance: concepts and practice
(b) assessment of environment, role and interdisciplinary team in maintaining clinical quality and safety
(c) identify actual and potential risks to minimise error in clinical practice
(d) the application of methods to identify, measure and analyse problems with care delivery
(e) act upon information to improve both the individual and systemic aspects of care delivery
Residential School
This subject contains a compulsory 2 day residential school.
For students studying by distance education this subject has a 2 day compulsory residential school
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.