Overview

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Offerings

MANDURAH-S1N-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1N-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

Other learning activities

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning when caring for individuals and groups in acute health care settings

2.

Apply ethical and legal principles when assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care in the acute care setting

3.

Describe the importance of health promotion, health education and behaviour change to implementing person-centred care in the acute and community healthcare setting

4.

Apply knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology and evidence-based practice to acute care and community care case-based learning

5.

Demonstrate essential nursing skills that ensure safe, effective and evidence-based nursing practice for patients across the lifespan whilst promoting a therapeutic nurse patient relationship

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Key Topics include:

Introduction to pathophysiology and pharmacology to maintain homeostasis

Respiratory pathophysiology and pharmacology 

Cardiovascular pathophysiology and pharmacology 

Neurological pathophysiology and pharmacology 

Musculoskeletal pathophysiology and analgesia

Community health overview

Lifestyle burden - legal and ethical implications

Transitioning the patient from the acute setting to the community