Year
2010
Units
9
Contact
1 x 2-hour lecture weekly
2 x 2-hour tutorials weekly
2 x 2-hour tutorials weekly
Prerequisites
Admission into BNGG-Bachelor of Nursing (Graduate Entry)
Topic description
This topic provides a platform for professional nursing practice. It introduces students to a wide range of professional nursing issues including how nursing relates to law, ethics, social and political theory, cultural safety, primary health care and mental health. The topic will also, in conjuction with NURS 2803 Introduction to Nursing Practice, introduce students to the Biosciences. This topic facilitates students' integration into the continuing BNg program.
Educational aims
The aim of this topic is to provide a platform for professional nursing practice. Students will, in conjunction with NURS2803 Introduction to Nursing Practice, be introduced to the bio-sciences and how these inform practice. It also introduces students to a wide range of professional issues including how nursing relates to law, ethics, social and political theory, cultural safety, primary health care and mental health.
Expected learning outcomes
On completion of this topic, students will be expected to be able to:
- apply an inquiry-based approach to learning about the practice of nursing
- analyse conceptual frameworks of the discipline of nursing
- develop a beginning critique of the professional practice of nursing
- describe nursing in the context of the overall health services
- demonstrate an awareness of ANCI competencies and relate these to learning situations
- develop an understanding of human development across the lifespan, from pre-natal period to old age, in terms of psychological, social and physical development
- discuss and explain, at a beginning level, the structure and function of the human body in relation to professional nursing practice
- discuss and apply the following themes to nursing practice: jurisprudence; ethics; cultural safety; primary health care; mental health; pathophysiology; pharmacology.
Key dates and timetable
Timetable details for 2010 are no longer published.
Sturt Rd, Bedford Park
South Australia 5042
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