NS3322 - Nursing in the North
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Student Contribution Band: | National Priority Band |
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This subject focuses upon the impact of tropical environments 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 Outcomes
- describe the impact of climate and rural/remote location on the health of northern Australians;
- discuss health problems (and their management) that are prevalent in northern Australia;
- provide students with foundation knowledge regarding health service delivery across the north of Australia.
| Prerequisites: | NS1222 |
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