Undergraduate - UnitNUR4010 - Rural health emergencies

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Sonia Allen

Synopsis

This unit addresses the need for rural nurses to be formally prepared for an expanded practice role. Unit content has been selected on the basis of health situations commonly encountered in rural nursing practice and identified in the literature by Australian rural nurses as learning priorities. This unit will develop the students' ability to respond appropriately to medical, obstetric, traumatic, farming and industrial, environmental or psychosocial health crises in the context of rural and remote practice. Students will refine knowledge and skills pertinent to effectively triage, manage, refer, transfer, and where appropriate, resuscitate and stabilise clients.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Educational Objectives

discuss the implications of rural practice, law and ethics as it relates to nurses' initiation of emergency care in rural health crises;
solve problems pertinent to rural medical, traumatic, obstetric, environmental and psycho-social emergencies;
apply sound clinical reasoning to managing clients in emergency situations;
identify the pharmacological interventions, reactions and interactions a rural nurse may be required to address in rural practice;

Clinical Objectives

undertake advanced clinical assessment and first-line treatment of clients of all ages who experience health crises in a rural setting;
demonstrate competent resuscitative skills across the lifespan;
appropriately triage, manage, refer and transfer clients experiencing a health crisis;
practice safely with increasing independence.

Assessment

Assignment (30%)
Case study (30%)
Examination (40%)
Clinical OSCE (20%)
Clinical evaluation (Pass / Fail)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Sonia Allen

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Nursing

Prerequisites

Must have passed 2 units in {NUR3009, and NUR3002 OR NUR3106}.

Co-requisites

Available only to students undertaking Bachelor of Nursing and Rural Health Practice.