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
Group 1
Class number 29033
Section TU01
Size 25
Available -67
Class number 29179
Section TU02
Size 25
Available -71
Class number 29870
Section WS14
Size 25
Available 4
Class number 29882
Section WS02
Size 25
Available 7
Class number 29879
Section WS05
Size 25
Available 6
Class number 29877
Section WS07
Size 25
Available 7
Class number 29876
Section WS08
Size 25
Available 9
Class number 29875
Section WS09
Size 25
Available 8
Class number 29874
Section WS10
Size 25
Available 4
Class number 29873
Section WS11
Size 25
Available 10
Class number 29872
Section WS12
Size 25
Available 2
Class number 29871
Section WS13
Size 25
Available 8
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 31077
Section TU03
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 31076
Section TU04
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 31075
Section TU05
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 31074
Section TU06
Size 25
Available 20
Class number 31073
Section TU07
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 31072
Section TU08
Size 25
Available 19
Class number 31071
Section TU09
Size 25
Available 23
Class number 31070
Section TU10
Size 25
Available 22
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