NUR5928 Advanced medical/surgical nursing practice 2
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
NUR5928 Advanced medical/surgical nursing practice 2 is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2021. It needs NUR5703 and NUR5927.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2021
- Not offered
- Assessment
- Exam 40%
- and 3 other tasks
The 2027 handbook has no page for NUR5928. This is its 2021 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before NUR5928
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After NUR5928
No unit lists NUR5928 as a prerequisite in the 2021 handbook.
Overview
The advance practice general nurse requires a diverse knowledge and skill base to appropriately and effectively assess and manage clients/patients in a hospital environment. This unit will enable students to develop proficiency in the holistic management of patients with gastrointestinal, neurological, endocrine and musculoskeletal dysfunction, and trauma. The unit will prepare the student to provide an advanced level of care to medical and surgical patients across age groups, and from all socio-cultural and economic groups.
Offerings in 2021
The 2021 handbook lists no offerings for NUR5928.
Assessment
- Clinical assessment (Pass / Fail)Competency hurdle-
- ExaminationThreshold hurdle40%
- Written assignment (3,000 words)30%
- Case presentation on complex patient safety issue/clinical risk (3,000 words)30%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Locate and critically appraise data to support advanced medical/surgical nursing practice.
- 2
Synthesise information in order to plan and implement appropriate, evidence-based, person-centred therapeutic interventions for medical and surgical patients experiencing gastrointestinal, neurological, endocrine and musculoskeletal dysfunction, and trauma.
- 3
Critically evaluate the socio-cultural, legal and ethical issues related to the nursing management of medical and surgical patients.
- 4
Analyse the application of interpersonal skills in the management of patients, families and significant others who are experiencing grief, loss or what they perceive to be a crisis.
- 5
Critically analyse the clinical, situational and professional issues supporting and complicating advanced practice in medical and surgical nursing.
- 6
Critically evaluate approaches to patient safety and clinical risk management.
Workload and teaching
12 hours per week including self-directed learning.
Learning resources
Required resources
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- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
- Organisational unit
- School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 1
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 20202021