Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online | N/A |
Unit description
Enables students to build on current knowledge and skills to demonstrate sound clinical judgement and reasoning based on evidence based nursing care. A systematic and comprehensive approach to health assessment and chronic health complaints will be explored.
Unit content
- Clinical reasoning and judgement in nursing
- Principles of comprehensive patient health assessment
- Application of comprehensive patient health assessment
- Principles and processes of constructive feedback
- Documentation using the Subjective, Objective Assessment and Plan (SOAP) method
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine the clinical reasoning cycle and its application in the nursing context and evaluate the role of critical thinking abilities in maintaining safe and effective patient care | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 2 | critique each stage of clinical reasoning cycle in the implementation of nursing care | Intellectual rigour | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 3 | interpret, apply and document the principles of physical assessment to the client's presentation/condition using the SOAP method of recording clinical information to justify the assessment | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 4 | prepare a comprehensive patient health assessment and integrate findings and recommendations into a plan that can be shared with the multidisciplinary team | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | |||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- examine the clinical reasoning cycle and its application in the nursing context and evaluate the role of critical thinking abilities in maintaining safe and effective patient care
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- critique each stage of clinical reasoning cycle in the implementation of nursing care
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- interpret, apply and document the principles of physical assessment to the client's presentation/condition using the SOAP method of recording clinical information to justify the assessment
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- prepare a comprehensive patient health assessment and integrate findings and recommendations into a plan that can be shared with the multidisciplinary team
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- 1st edition is also accepted.: Levett-Jones, T, 2018, Clinical Reasoning: Learning to think like a nurse , 2nd Edition, Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia. ISBN: 9781488616396.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Structured online learning (6 wks) |
| Assessment | |
| Short written response | 20% |
| Report - patient health assessment | 40% |
| Portfolio | 40% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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