SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics: 1. Administration of prescribed intravenous fluids and blood products for children and adults:
(a) assist with peripheral cannula insertion
(b) maintain cannula patency
(c) remove peripheral cannula
(d) maintain integrity of peripheral intravenous infusions and equipment
(e) calculate peripheral infusion rates (eg. drops/min, ml/h)
2. Administration of medications for children and adults:
(a) oral
(b) sublingual
(c) topical
(d) ocular
(e) aural
(f) nasal
(g) inhalational
(h) rectal
(i) vaginal
(j) intradermal
(k) subcutaneous
(l) intramuscular
(m) intravenous
(n) medication calculations
3. Nursing interventions and care of for children and adults with musculoskeletal dysfunction:
(a) assessment skills (eg. neurovascular observations, acute pain, deformity, range of movement, mobility)
(b) diagnostic tests (eg. x-ray)
(c) immobilisation devices (eg. casts, traction, bandages, slings)
(d) perioperative care
(e) rehabilitation (eg. mobility aids, assistive devices)
4. Nursing interventions and care of for children and adults with integumentary dysfunction:
(a) assessment skills (eg. skin, wounds, burns)
(b) diagnostic tests (eg. skin biopsy)
(c) perioperative care
(d) wound assessment and management (burns and other complex wounds)
(e) rehabilitation
5. Nursing interventions and care of for children and adults with respiratory dysfunction:
(a) assessment skills (eg. respirations, breath sounds, pulse oximetry, activity)
(b) diagnostic tests (eg. spirometry, chest x-ray, blood gases, sputum analysis)
(c) perioperative care
(d) respiratory therapy (eg. positioning; postural drainage; percussion, vibration, incentive spirometry, deep breathing and coughing)
(e) oropharyngeal suctioning
(f) oxygen/nebuliser therapy
(g) chest drain management
(h) rehabilitation
6. Nursing interventions and care of for children and adults with special sensory dysfunction:
(a) assessment skills (eg. visual acuity, extraocular muscle function, pupillary responses, visual field, hearing acuity)
(b) diagnostic tests (eg. retinoscopy, fluorescein angiography, otoscopy, audiometry)
(c) perioperative care
(d) rehabilitation
7. Nursing interventions and care of for children and adults with cardiac dysfunction:
(a) assessment skills (eg. pulse and blood pressure, electrocardiogram, heart sounds, JVP, CVP, chest pain, activity)
(b) diagnostic tests (eg. exercise tests, cardiac enzymes, echocardiogram, cardiac angiography)
(c) basic and advanced life support
(d) perioperative care
(e) rehabilitation
6. Nursing interventions and care of children and adults with vascular dysfunction:
(a) assessment skills (eg. peripheral pulses and perfusion, leg/foot ulcers)
(b) diagnostic tests (eg. angiography, dopplers)
(c) perioperative care
(d) compression bandaging
(e) stump bandaging
(f) rehabilitation (eg. mobility aids, limb prostheses)
9. Nursing interventions and care of children and adults with haematological dysfunction:
(a) assessment skills
(b) diagnostic tests (eg. FBC, coagulation)
(c) blood product transfusion
(d) rehabilitation
10. 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 |
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