NS5740 - Advanced Medical Nursing

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
Administered by:	Discipline of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition

Available to registered nurses enrolled in postgraduate courses in the School of Nursing Sciences.

This subject will include issues such as: defining advanced nursing practice within the medical context; examining the forces currently shaping advanced practice; advanced problem solving; discharge planning; Indigenous health issues; leadership and advanced practice; evolving concepts and constructs in medical nursing.

Learning Outcomes

• apply advanced practice theory to the care of patients with medical diagnoses;
• demonstrate advanced problem-solving skills, using an evidence-based approach;
• identify knowledge, skills and attitudes associated with advanced nursing practice;
• recognise contemporary trends in the clinical management of medical patients.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Mrs Adele Baldwin
Lecturer:	jc159085.
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	assignments.
FSN Fiji, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Mrs Adele Baldwin
Lecturer:	Dr Ann Bonner.
Assessment:	assignments.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.