NS3311:04
Nursing in the North
| Townsville, Cairns, Mount Isa, External | HECS Band 1 |
Internal (Townsville, Cairns, Mt Isa campuses) and external by a combination of reading and computer-based discussion groups. Semester 1.
Staff: Ms T O’Connor.
This subject includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health; impact of tropical environment on health eg heat related disorders; provision of health services/health policy in relation to geography (finance, service provision, population density, rural and remote issues); tropical trauma – envenomation: land and marine; barotrauma; retrieval of victims of industrial and other trauma from remote areas; tropical diseases – arboviruses; malaria; melioidosis; mycobacterium; skin cancers; kidney disease.
Learning Objectives:
- discuss the issue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and its impact on the delivery of health care in the north;
- outline the major aspects of health care delivery across the north of Australia;
- describe the impact of climate on the health of northern Australians;
- discuss health problems (and their management) that are prevalent in northern Australia.
Assessment by written assignments.