This course builds on foundational nursing skills to enhance and enable students to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes required when providing nursing management for clients with chronic diseases. Students should be able to demonstrate the ability to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and accurately document nursing management for the client with chronic diseases, through assessment and the application of critical thinking incorporating evidence base practice. Students should be able to critique the nursing management of individuals requiring palliation and suffering from chronic disorders of mobility, circulation, respiration, digestion, endocrine, neurology and integument. The relationship between physical, mental and social health in the acute client is explored. Participation in compulsory clinical placement should provide students with a suitable learning environment to meet the course objectives. Participation in the clinical laboratory sessions is compulsory for internal students and participation in the residential school is compulsory for flex students.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 2 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
NURS12147 Acute Nursing Management or NURS12142 Nursing in a Surgical Environment and NURS12151 Pharmacology for Nurses or NURS12140 Disease Mgmt & Control and BIOH12008 Human Pathophysiology 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
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).
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 Task | Weighting |
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1. On-campus Activity | 0% |
2. Examination | 50% |
3. Online Quiz(zes) | 50% |
4. Off-campus Activity | 0% |
5. Portfolio | 0% |
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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No previous feedback available
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
1 - On-campus Activity | • | • | • | • | • | • |
2 - Examination | • | • | • | • | ||
3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | |||||
4 - Off-campus Activity | • | • | • | • | • | • |
5 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
1 - Communication | • | • | • | |||
2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • | |
3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • | |
4 - Information Literacy | • | • | ||||
5 - Team Work | • | • | ||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | • | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • | • | • |
8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • | • |
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - On-campus Activity | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | • | ||||||
4 - Off-campus Activity | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
5 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
2 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • |