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NURS11150 - Holistic Nursing Assessment

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Nursing assessment involves the systematic and comprehensive collection of data about the individual's health state. Importantly, the health assessment incorporates an holistic approach focussing on the individual as a whole and thereby includes biophysical, psychosocial, emotional, cultural, spiritual, mental and developmental aspects of the client, in conjunction with the client's record and laboratory results. Students should be able to discuss the need for planned and organised approach in conducting holistic nursing assessments on the client. Students should also be able to discuss the approaches used and issues to consider in undertaking psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and developmental assessments of the client across the lifespan and of diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. In addition, students should be able to explain the process of obtaining objective data using the physical assessment techniques when conducting a biophysical nursing assessment of integumentary, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal and sensory systems. Participation in the clinical laboratory sessions is compulsory for internal students and residential school is compulsory for Flex students.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

NURS11149 Foundations of Nursing Practice or NURS11147 Foundation Nursing Skills. Coreq: BIOH11006 Advanced Anatomy & Physiology

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).

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Residential School Compulsory Residential School
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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2025

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 1 - 2025

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 50%
2. Examination 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2012 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 63.73% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 54.06% response rate.

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.

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Feedback
N/A Course not to be offered again under new curriculum commencing Term 1, 2013. For this reason, there is no merit in considering the report in terms of its future impact.
Recommendation
N/A
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Discuss the need for planned and organised approach in conducting holistic nursing assessments on the client.
  2. Explain the importance of subjective data in the interview process of data gathering to establishing a therapeutic relationship with the client.
  3. Discuss the approaches used and issues to consider in undertaking psychosocial, cultural, spiritual, mental and developmental assessments of the client across the lifespan and of diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
  4. Explain the process of obtaining objective data using the physical assessment techniques when conducting a biophysical nursing assessment of integumentary, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal and sensory systems.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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2 - Problem Solving • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • • •
5 - Team Work • • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
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