Human responses to health/health breakdown II: physiological and psychosocial nursing phenomena - the consequences of health breakdown
Ms J Yalden and Ms S Elsom
8 points * 2 hours per week theory * 3 hours per week laboratory skills, plus 160 clinical hours * Second semester * Peninsula
The subject is designed to enable the student to develop an understanding of the processes and consequences of health breakdown in relation to cognition, sensation and motor function across the life span. It aims to further develop skills for the maintenance and support of the activities of daily living involved in the notion of habilitation and rehabilitation. The subject is taught by lectures, tutorials, demonstrations, laboratory and clinical practice.
Assessment
Examination (2 hours): 40% * Practical skills assessment: 25% * Assignment: 35% * 80% attendance at lectures and practical classes and 100% attendance at clinical practice is mandatory * Clinical performance assessment is based on competencies. In order to be credited with a pass or higher grade for NSG1002, a satisfactory level must be achieved in the clinical performance area
Prescribed texts
Gatford J D Nursing calculations Churchill Livingstone, 1990
Taylor C and others Fundamentals of nursing, the art and science of nursing care 2nd edn, Lippincott, 1993