NSG6401

Adult care and the challenging of ageing

Not offered in 1999

Ms J Yalden

6 points · 3 hours per week · Second semester · Peninsula

Objectives On completion of this subject students are expected to discuss the evolution and nature of nursing care for aged, disabled and frail persons; examine the philosophical and theoretical foundations of extended care nursing practice; evaluate models of care utilised to achieve desired outcomes of care for clients; critically reflect on the relationship between personal philosophy of care and current care practices in extended care nursing; assess the developmental, structural and functional changes associated with the ageing process and the extent to which these changes present as residual disability; critically examine biological, psychological and sociological perspectives of ageing; review the implications of an ageing population in family processes, community and nursing care practice; apply criteria for a holistic assessment of persons requiring extended care nursing.

Synopsis The subject examines the normal physiological changes in body systems and the relationship with selected biological theories of ageing. Distinctions are made between normal physiological changes and pathological age-related changes and the extent to which they may be assessed to represent residual impairment, disability or handicap. Assessment of specific problems of cognition, mobility, sensation and continence associated with the identified functional and structural changes will be examined within a clinical nursing management framework.

Assessment Written assignment: 50% · Seminar presentation: 30% · Clinical fieldwork: 20%

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