Completing the learning activities for this course should enable the student to:
1. Discuss the history of nursing;
2. Examine the relationships among nursing knowledge and nursing theories;
3. Describe the structures that comprise the Australian health care system.
4. Describe the structures and processes for the professional and legal regulation of nursing;
5. Examine the role relationships of a range of health care providers;
6. Discuss the contemporary roles and functions of the nurse;
7. Explore frameworks that guide nursing practice;
8. Examine a range of tools for learning and practice;
9. Develop and demonstrate group work skills;
10. Demonstrate effective communication skills, including oral, written and information and communication technology skills; and
11. Apply principles of integrity, honesty and respect for knowledge to academic activities.

Module 1: Introduction to the Australian Healthcare System and Nurses as Professionals
Health service organisations;
The regulation of nursing: NSW Nurses Act, NMB,
Guidelines regarding boundaries of professional practice,
ANMC National Code of Ethics, Code of Professional Conduct.
Module 2: Evolution of Nursing
The history of nursing, lessons from history, introductions;
Group/team development and inter-relationships within health care;
Contemporary nursing practice, contexts of practice, international, national and local professional and industrial nursing organisations;
Nursing roles and functions;
Relationships within nursing and with unregulated carers.
Module 3: Professional Nursing
The regulation of nursing: NSW Nurses Act, Nurses and Midwives Board;
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC) National Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses;
ANMC Code of Professional Conduct for Registered Nurses;
Nursing roles and functions;
Relationships within nursing and with unregulated carers.
Module 4: Knowing in Nursing
Ways of knowing in nursing, finding nursing knowledge, using library databases;
Nursing theorists, concepts and frameworks, applying nursing knowledge;
The relevance of evidence to theory and practice;
Nursing care plans and assessment tools, Andersen's Care Activity Framework.

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Distance Learning : IT Based
Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning

Email Discussion Group
Problem Based Learning
Experience Based Learning
Self Directed Learning
Tutorial

Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for 12 weeks
Tutorial: for 2 hour(s) per Week for 12 weeks