Completing the learning activities for this course should enable the student to:
1. Discuss the factors that lead to physiological and mental health changes;
2. Understand the dimensions of acute and chronic health breakdown and disability.
3. Apply the understanding of organisms and their culture to the collection, storage and handling of specimens;
4. Complete a comprehensive nursing assessment for a client with an inflammatory or infective process;
5. Analyse nursing assessment data to identify risks of health breakdown;
6. Use nursing tools to plan and evaluate care for clients ;
7. Implement preventive nursing activities;
8. Develop specified nursing skills and use these to provide care in the clinical setting;
9. Discuss continuity of care and the relationships between institutional and community health services for clients;
10. Apply an evidenced base approach to the assessment and nursing care of clients experiencing illness; and
11. Plan and implement care that reflects understanding of the impact of health breakdown, including psychosocial dimensions of the illness experience on the client and significant others.

Introduction: the nature of health breakdown, causes, consequences and outcomes;
Health assessment: history taking and evaluating health breakdown from presented scenarios;
Analysis of health breakdown: factors that lead to health changes including inflammation, infection, degeneration, congenital and genetic factors, neoplasia, malignant and non malignant, trauma.
Analysis of factors that lead to mental health changes: adaptive, maladaptive and pathological.
Care planning and evaluation of the effectiveness of nursing care; and
Environments of care such as clinics and hospitals, and continuity of care including home, community and health centres.

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NURS1181 Foundations of Nursing

Distance Learning : IT Based
Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning

Clinical
Lecture
Laboratory
Self Directed Learning
Tutorial

Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 2 hour(s) per Week for 9 weeks
Clinical: for 32 hour(s) per Term for Full Term
Laboratory: for 14 hour(s) per Term for Full Term