Nursing 5: nursing for gender health
BDN
Mrs J Griepsma
6 points * 115 hours per semester * Second semester * Gippsland * Prerequisites: GHS2410, GHS2412 * Corequisites: GHS2420, GAS2118
The enhance the role of nurses as carers within the community as well as acute care settings and to encourage effective strategies in promoting health related to women and men in their lived experiences. To encourage factors which have a bearing on the health of individuals within the family context, and identifying various nursing implications related to health and health impairment, especially in areas of sexuality and reproduction. The notion of gender health within the context in which women and men live their lives. The subject is taught by lectures and lecture/demonstration. Students are responsible for skill acquisition using computer-assisted learning packages, video-tapes, slide-tape, laboratory sessions and laboratory study guides. Attendance at nursing skill laboratories is mandatory. Clinical experience will be provided within health care facilities where issues in family health are encountered. In the clinical setting the student will have the opportunity to apply theory to practice under supervision. Attendance at clinical sessions is mandatory. Where a student's skills and knowledge are found to be inadequate, access to the clinical component of the subject will be denied. Reflective participation in practice is encouraged through group debriefing in the clinical setting.
Assessment
Assignment (2000 words): 25% * Written test prior to clinical practice: 25% * Examination: 50% * Assessment of clinical experience will be based on the student's performance in the clinical setting including the application of knowledge to practice, the delivery of care, participation in debriefings and presentation of documentation related to nursing care: pass/fail * Students are required to pass both clinical and theoretical components of the subject
Prescribed texts
Beischer N A and others Care of the pregnant woman and her baby 2nd edn, Saunders, Bailliere Tindall, 1989
Kosier B and others Fundamentals in nursing Addison-Wesley, 1991
Lewis S M and Collier I C Medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems 3rd edn, Mosby, 1992
Saltman D Women and health: An introduction to issues Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991