Course overview
This course provides an opportunity to further extend and refine all aspects of nursing practice for clients in complex health care across the lifespan.Develop and refine skills of observation, assessment, communication and documentation apply and integrate knowledge from the nursing and biological sciences and evidence based practice into complex health care, articulate the impact of complex illness on patients and families across the lifespan and critically analyse nursing practice.
Course learning outcomes
- Further develop and refine skills of observation, assessment, communication and documentation.
- Apply and integrate knowledge from the nursing, biological and pharmacological sciences and evidence based practice into complex health care.
- Identify the different complexities and knowledge required from the nursing and biological sciences and evidence based practice across a variety of different settings.
- Articulate the impact of complex health problems on patients and families across the lifespan.
- Identify and describe pharmacokinetics for selected health problems.
- Develop an understanding of family law and ethics including guardianship.
- Examine international perspectives for nursing and health care.