NS5901 - Extended Health Assessment for Nurse Practitioners

[Offered in odd-numbered years]

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition

This subject aims to provide Nurse Practitioner students with the requisite knowledge and skills to complete system-specific and comprehensive health histories and physical examinations utilising clinical decision-making skills necessary to provide competent and safe patient/client care. As such, it expands the nurse's knowledge of cognitive processes and psychomotor skills needed for comprehensive assessment of patients/clients across the lifespan required for an advanced and extended scope of practice. Techniques and processes of performing a physical, mental, developmental and nutritional assessment, obtaining a health history, performing selected diagnostic procedures, and recording findings are core components of the subject.

Learning Outcomes

• Assimilate developmental, bio-psycho-social and cultural perspectives wth experiential and practical knowledge for the conduct of comprehensive health assessments for both well and ill individuals, across the lifespan.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• 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 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;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Corequisites:

NS5902

Availabilities
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Face to face teaching 09-May-2011 to 13-May-2011 (Flexible delivery requiring some on-campus attendance)
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor David Lindsay
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor David Lindsay, Dr Lea Budden.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); tutorial attendance and participation (%); osce during residential (40%); mini-clinical examinations [two per module] to be marked by clinical supervisor (satisfactory/unsatisfactory] (40%); assignments (%).
Restrictions:	An enrolment quota applies to this offering.

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.