NURS1005
10 units
1000 level
Course handbook
Description
The course explores the knowledge and principles of care in relation to healthy ageing and issues, challenges and supports for older people in Australia. Students will gain an understanding of the importance of promoting quality of life, independence and maintaining choice and dignity for older people as they live with age-related changes, risk factors, sociocultural issues and functional consequences. A focus of this course is to develop student knowledge and skills for the provision of person-centred, evidence-based nursing care for the older person across a range of health settings. Students will understand the complexity of local, national and global issues related to caring for older person.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Gosford
- Semester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Explain the concept of healthy ageing and its promotion at an individual and community level.
2. Describe relevant social, political, legal and ethical implications of ageing across local, national and global contexts.
3. Apply the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing and the Clinical Reasoning Cycle to the holistic and comprehensive assessment and planning of care for the older person.
4. Relate the Quality Use of Medicines framework to the essentials of caring for the older person.
Content
Module 1. Older people, families and communities
Module 2. Healthy ageing
Module 3. Environments of care for older people
Module 4. Person-centred nursing care for older people
Module 5. Quality use of medicines
Module 6. Strategies to promote health and quality of life within a legal and ethical framework
Requisite
This course is available to students who are active in the Bachelor of Nursing [40298] and have not previously successfully completed NURS1201.
Assessment items
Presentation: Healthy Ageing
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Case Study / Problem Based Learning: Plan of care
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Contact hours
Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Lecture-1
- Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 6 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- Face to face On campus: 2 hour(s) per week for 8 weeks and;Online: 2 hour(s) per Week for 4 Weeks
Semester 2 - 2024 - Gosford
Lecture-1
- Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 6 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- Face to face On campus: 2 hour(s) per week for 8 weeks and;Online: 2 hour(s) per Week for 4 Weeks
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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