Undergraduate - UnitNUR3005 - Chronic illness management in primary care

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Offered	Berwick Second semester 2014 (Day) Peninsula Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Melissa Bloomer

Synopsis

This unit focuses on multi-disciplinary care and models of care delivery with an emphasis on ageing, chronic and life limiting illness. With the evolving role of the nurse as primary care providers it introduces the student to the issues facing older people and will include healthy ageing, the ageing process, polypharmacy, lifestyle issues, advanced health assessment related to people with complex health needs and legal and ethical issues associated with aging, chronic illness and palliative care.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit the student will be expected to be able to:

discuss perspectives, and the physical, psychological and social aspects of ageing in the context of health and illness in older people in our community
describe the impact of ageing and chronic illness on clients, families and carers and apply this to the discharge planning bridging the transition from acute care to primary care and palliative care
analyse the legal and ethical issues that arise from changes to cognition, chronic and life limiting illness such as challenges to autonomy, protection of patients, quality of life and euthanasia
differentiate the roles of nurses working in multidisciplinary teams, who care for people with chronic and/or life limiting illness in different health care environments
utilise holistic health assessment skills to assess the complex health needs of older adults, people with chronic and life limiting illness in relation to physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs
Demonstrate and evaluate a range of evidenced based interventions that support the person experiencing complex care needs associated with living with a chronic illness
identify the primary care resources for people with issues related to ageing, chronic and life limiting illness in the community
utilise the health promotion, supportive and palliative approaches to care for people with chronic and life limiting illness in a range of health care settings.

Fieldwork

Clinical Placement two (2) weeks (80 hours)

Assessment

Examination (3 hour): 50%
Assignment: 40%
On-line guided activity: 10%
Clinical placement assessment (100% attendance): Pass/Fail.

Students must achieve a pass in the clinical placement to pass the unit
Students must attend 90% of all scheduled laboratories - refer to school clinical guidelines for details.

Students are required to attend 80% of clinical workshops/tutorials, unless they are able to provide medical or other certification.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Melissa Bloomer

Workload requirements

Two (2) hours of lecture per week
Two (2) hours of tutorial
Four (4) hours guided study per week
Two (2) weeks of clinical placement at five (5) days/week (based on an 8 hour day/40 hour week, 80 hours in total)

Prerequisites

NUR2002 or NUR2106,
NUR2004 or NUR2206,
NUR2104 or NUR2107.

Co-requisites

Only available to students enrolled in: 0727 Bachelor of Nursing or 3892 Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic) or 4506 Bachelor of Nursing (Community Health) or 4514 Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Midwifery