Course overview
This course will introduce cultural, health beliefs and practices, epidemiological, immunological, pharmacological, and psychological and social science concepts that are relevant to nursing care.
Course learning outcomes
- Effectively communicate with clients, community members, nursing colleagues and other health professionals, including managing conflict.
- Identify epidemiological terms and concepts and discuss the importance of epidemiological data in health care including how diseases can be transmitted and effective principles to control infection.
- Discuss culturally sensitive and safe health care for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds and acknowledge individual variances in beliefs and practices.
- Discuss the concepts of caring, stress and coping as it pertains to clients receiving nursing practice and identify indicators of stress and strategies to assist in their reduction.
- Discuss the concept of a person centred approach as an underlying principle when providing nursing care.
- Identify relevant activities of daily living for a patient with a selected health problem.
- Discuss primary health in an Australian healthcare context and discuss the nurse’s role in health promotion and illness prevention.
- Identify determinants of health within Australian and global populations.
- Identify the basic classifications of drugs and distinguish between pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.
- Consider the administration of oral medications and recognise and respond to adverse drug reactions.