Year
2016
Units
4.5
Contact
12 x 6.5-hour independent studies per semester
12 x 2-hour on-line exercises per semester
12 x 2-hour on-line tutorials per semester
12 x 2-hour on-line exercises per semester
12 x 2-hour on-line tutorials per semester
Assumed knowledge
Post-registration experience in aged care nursing
Topic description
In this topic students will be given information which will equip them to compare and contrast the characteristics of the three diagnoses which affect many people who are ageing. It will introduce the student to the anatomy, diagnosis and management of depression, delirium and depression in the acute health context, residential aged care context and community context.
Educational aims
This topic has been designed to introduce and extend students' knowledge of dementia, delirium and depression, how to distinguish the diagnoses, what they are and what they are not. It will cover the physiological manifestation of these diagnoses, and introduce students to strategies which will assist them to make the distinctions, and the ultimate management and how to approach the person suffering from dementia. The social context and living circumstances of the person with dementia will be explored.
Expected learning outcomes
On successful completion of this topic students will be able to:
- diagnostic differences between dementia, depression and delirium
- dementia, delirium and depression from physical, socio-emotional and environmental perspectives
- treatment of dementia, delirium and depression including the therapeutic and psycho/social management
- physiological aspects including the stages of dementia
- person with dementia's life circumstances in residential aged care facilities and/or in the community
- assessment and care planning, and its relationship to quality outcomes support of the person with dementia
- available approaches to care for the person with dementiacomplexities encountered by the person with dementia and their families.
Key dates and timetable
Timetable details for 2016 are no longer published.
Sturt Rd, Bedford Park
South Australia 5042
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