| Semester 1, 2022 Online | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences |
| School or Department : | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Overview
Providing quality, safe, ethical and professional care that meets regulatory standards is a paramount concern for all members of society, locally, nationally and globally. Health professionals working effectively as a team delivering person centred care, are an essential and critical element in ensuring the care needs and expectations of older people are met and comply with these standards. This course has been developed to provide postgraduate students, especially new Registered Nurses, the knowledge and skills to enable them to practice competently and confidently in the contemporary health settings, delivering quality, safe care that meets and exceeds the older person鈥檚 expectations and regulatory requirements.
This course provides a focus for quality health care provision for older people that builds and expands on prior knowledge and skills gained from undergraduate level nursing courses. The course will provide postgraduate nursing students with advanced concepts to enhance their clinical decisions and practices related to older people across a wide spectrum of clinical settings and the community. The course will also contribute to the ongoing development of nurses' qualities as leaders, especially as change agents in their respective health practice contexts that improve the care experience and quality of life of older people. Learning outcomes will address key concepts such as philosophies of care approach, professional nursing and aged care quality standards, healthy ageing and the older person, the ageing process, including the theories of ageing, contemporary practice and cultural challenges and issues, significant to local, national and international healthy aged care practices.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- Apply the philosophies of care approach, nursing and aged care standards, and the concepts of healthy ageing in the ethical application of caring for the diverse characteristics of older people and their health;
- Apply the ageing process, theories of ageing and cultural safety, to identify the challenges and issues experienced by older people and discuss how nurses may positively influence their everyday life experiences;
- Critically analyse and evaluate historical and social, cultural factors, surrounding aged care practices;
- Examine the implications of cultural perspectives, challenges and issues relevant to aged care practices;
- Reflect on aged care practices using the concept of quality improvement, to direct quality care improvements caring for older people.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Philosophies of care approach, nursing and aged care standards and healthy ageing. | 25.00 |
| 2. | Ageing process, theories of ageing and cultural safety. | 20.00 |
| 3. | Historical, social and cultural factors, challenges and issues (global ageing, neglect, abuse, rights of older persons) influencing aged care practices in Australia. | 25.00 |
| 4. | Reflective practice and quality improvement. | 30.00 |
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Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reflection (personal/clinical) | No | 50 | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Case 精东传媒app | No | 50 | 1,2,3,4,5 |