NS3224:03
Integrated Nursing 2
| Townsville, Cairns, Mount Isa | HECS Band 1 |
25 hours lectures, 20 hours tutorials, 30 hours nursing science laboratories (Townsville, Cairns, Mount Isa campus); Limited Attendance with a 5-day residential school (Townsville campus). Semester 2.
Available only to level 3 nursing science students.
This subject extends the process and knowledge begun in the previous nursing practice subjects by continuing to foster the student’s ability to exercise clinical judgement. Emphasis is placed on advanced assessment and implementation skills and techniques as the students learn to deal with patients who have increasingly complex health problems.
Learning Objectives:
- refine assessment and planning skills in order to provide optimum care for a patient in a complex situation;
- demonstrate advanced clinical skills and techniques for caring for a patient with complex health problems;
- apply ethical and legal principles to clinical situations where issues such as termination of life support, euthanasia, organ transplant arise;
- integrate principles of management and time management strategies into clinical situations.
On-course assessment (50%); examination (50%).