Overview

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Offerings

MANDURAH-S1N-INT-2021-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1N-INT-2021-ONGOING

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning at a semester 5 level when caring for individuals and groups in critical care settings

2.

Apply ethical and legal principles when assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care in critical care settings

3.

Demonstrate advanced evidence-based nursing skills and knowledge to recognise deviations and deterioration in a client’s health status and apply appropriate nursing interventions

4.

Apply knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology and nursing evidence-based practice to critical care case-based scenarios

5.

Demonstrate essential nursing skills that ensure safe, effective and evidence-based nursing practice in a critical care context whilst promoting a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Key topics include:

Nursing Care of Respiratory Disorders III - Pneumonia

Nursing Care of Respiratory Disorders IV - ARDS

Nursing Care of Cardiovascular Disorders - MI

Nursing Care of Neurological Disorders - TBI

Nursing Care of Patients with Cancer and Chemotherapy

Nursing Care of Palliative Care

Complex Legal and Ethical Issues - Organ Donation

End of Life Care