This subject contains a 2 day Compulsory Residential School.
For distance education students this subject will have a two day residential school.
The course introduces students to a nursing orientation in caring for children and adults who have moderately severe health challenges. Students will apply critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, impl
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2018.
HD/FL
One session
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health
Enrolment in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing
1. Nursing and the secondary health care environment:
(a) The secondary health care environment and secondary prevention
(b) Health challenges and nursing interventions across the lifespan
(i) Musculoskeletal health challenges
(ii) Integumentary health challenges
(iii) Neurological health challenges
(iv) Special sensory health challenges
(v) Respiratory health challenges
(vi) Cardiac health challenges
2. Operationalising secondary health care and prevention:
(a) Safe nursing practice and professionalism
(i) Practice within scope of practice
(ii) Reflective practice and evidence based clinical reasoning
(iii) Documentation and communication
(iv) Skill acquisition in secondary health care context
· Musculoskeletal assessment and intervention: Care of traction, peri-operative care and wound management
· Integumentary assessment and intervention: Wound management, burn(s) assessment and management
· Neurological assessment and intervention: Seizure management, cerebrovascular accident care, closed head injury, pre, peri and post op care
· Special sensory assessment and intervention: Vision and hearing assessment
· Respiratory assessment and intervention: Airway management, mechanical ventilation, care of chronic obstructive airways disease
· Cardiac assessment and intervention: Acute myocardial infarction care, coronary artery disease care, peri-operative care, basic and advanced life support, intravenous therapy (peripheral), medication administration
· Pain management
3. Nursing and secondary prevention:
(a) Nursing and health promotion with individuals and groups
(i) Needs assessment
(ii) Planning health promotion and education activities
(iii) Implementing health promotion and education activities
(iv) Evaluating health promotion and education activities
(b) Promotion of selfcare
(c) Recognition of role in policy development and implementation
(d) Social justice and equity in health and illness
4. Ways of knowing
(a) Generic attributes of Charles Sturt University with particular focus on:
(i) Academic skills
(ii) Numerical competency and literacy
(iii) Beginning competency in critical thinking and reasoning
(iv) Technology competency and application
(v) Active research utilisation
(b) Application of evidence to theory, reflection, critique and practice
This subject contains a 2 day Compulsory Residential School.
For distance education students this subject will have a two day residential school.
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.