Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives Through a variety of in-class, clinically based and student driven activities, it is expected that students will assess complex patient needs, teach patients and their families, and coordinate support services in order to ensure quality patient care in hospital and following discharge; promote a collaborative relationship with other health care providers and consumers in planning and delivering comprehensive health care from preadmission to postdischarge; demonstrate clinical leadership by functioning as a team leader, role model, preceptor, facilitator and advocate for professional practice standards on units/wards where complex patients are nursed; evaluate current health care policies, resources, and community services that impact on the care for individuals and families with chronic health care problems; and evaluate current health care policies, resources and community services that impact on health promotion programs.
Synopsis Students demonstrate clinical leadership in caring for clients experiencing serious illness in hospital and through to the home environment. In depth exploration of complex patient needs and health care resources are provided, along with critique and analysis of advanced practice nursing, within and outside the boundaries of secondary and tertiary health facilities.
Assessment Two submissions, one of which is a written analysis of a health care system problem, the other a written report or oral presentation of the need for and outcomes of an intervention for a group of clients.