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NURS13141 Acute Alterations in Health in Complex Care Environments
Acute Alterations in Health in Complex Care Environments
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General Information

Overview

Acute alterations in health occur suddenly, may be severe in onset, and may be exacerbated in chronic health conditions. In this unit, you will learn how to conduct clinical reasoning for people across the lifespan who experience acute, severe alterations in health. You will focus on care delivery, communication, person-centred care, and working in partnership with the interdisciplinary health care team to care for the deteriorating person in a complex care environment. This unit challenges you to think innovatively to justify and prioritise nursing care requirements to enable optimal health outcomes for people facing the challenges of an acute alteration in their health.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 3
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 7
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisites: NURS12163 Chronic Health and Community Care NURS12164 Professional Experience Placement 3 or NURS13133 Clinical Nursing Practice 4

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2025

Brisbane
Online
Rockhampton

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Website

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Class and Assessment Overview

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This information will be available on Monday 13 January 2025
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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Student feedback: SUTE data

Feedback

Content was useful and tutorials were very relevant, however assignment task sheets were unclear at times.

Recommendation

Unit coordinators will review assignment task sheet to ensure better clarity is provided.

Feedback from Student feedback: SUTE data

Feedback

Having markers more aligned would be helpful in relation to assessments.

Recommendation

Although the moderation process was followed by the Unit Coordinators as per the University policy, several students within the small number of students who responded to the survey identiļ¬ed this as key issue. Moderation plan supporting information assessment marking and grading is recommended as per the DDLT.

Feedback from Student feedback: SUTE data

Feedback

I appreciated the real life scenarios shared and feel this will help immensely with future patient care.

Recommendation

Unit coordinators will ensure to include relevant scenarios to link realistically to clinical setting. Invited expert guest speakers will also be sought to provide additional context, linking to our industry partners.

Feedback from Student feedback: SUTE data

Feedback

Assessment feedback could be improved, for example how you could have expanded a topic

Recommendation

Unit coordinators will work closely with all markers and provide further direction on providing clearer and more constructive feedback. Moderation plan supporting information assessment marking and grading is recommended as per the DDLT.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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This information will be available on Monday 13 January 2025
Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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This information will be available on Monday 17 February 2025
Academic Integrity Statement

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