Course overview
To further enhance students’ knowledge and skills in health assessment, clinical reasoning, and pharmacotherapeutics, strengthening their ability to deliver safe, comprehensive, and person-centred nursing care across a range of complex clinical settings.
- Critical care nursing
- Peri operative nursing
- Cancer and palliative care nursing
Course learning outcomes
- Discuss ethical, spiritual and cultural aspects of palliative nursing, including an indigenous perspective
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and manage patient deterioration, provide compassionate end-of-life care, and apply ethical principles in clinical decision-making as a beginning RN
- Demonstrate an understanding of pre, intra and postoperative patient assessment and nursing interventions, including considerations for special patient populations across the lifespan
- Describe principles and nursing considerations for surgical conscience, asepsis and infection control, scrubbing, gowning and gloving with application of knowledge and skills for assessing and caring for a patient with a complex wound, including burns
- Explore applications of anaesthetic care, pain (including chronic pain management for palliative care patients), nausea and vomiting management in patients with complex needs
- Understand and relate anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology to effectively care for patients in perioperative, critical care, and palliative care environments
- Discuss and apply nursing assessment skills to patients with complex needs within the perioperative, critical care and palliative care environments
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 29883
Section WS01
Size 18
Available 15
Class number 29882
Section WS02
Size 18
Available 1
Class number 29881
Section WS03
Size 18
Available 13
Class number 29880
Section WS04
Size 18
Available 16
Class number 29878
Section WS06
Size 18
Available 4
Class number 29873
Section WS11
Size 18
Available 3
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