Admission and Unit Information - Bachelor of Nursing

This unit introduces the student to nursing concepts, principles and skills that identify, promote, maintain and support health and wellbeing across the lifespan.

This unit introduces the student to concepts and mechanisms involved in normal body functions and the maintenance of normal activities of living that inform professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces the student to psycho-social concepts and principles that underpin human behaviour and inform professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces the student to the basic constructs that form professional nursing and nursing practice.

This unit introduces students to professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are affected by health breakdown.

This unit introduces students to the concepts and mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces the student to psychosocial concepts and principles that promote and sustain the health of communities and informs professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces students to further constructs that inform professional nursing and nursing practice related to health breakdown.

This unit will elaborate on professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are experiencing health breakdown affecting eating, drinking, nutrition and elimination.

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by alteration in eating, drinking, nutrition, elimination and sexuality.

This unit explores concepts related to 400755 Evidence Based Nursing, which will further develop student understanding of the significance of scholarship, research and the research processes and how these may inform professional nursing knowledge and practice.

This unit provides the student with opportunities to investigate and discuss health issues as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

This unit will elaborate on professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are experiencing health breakdown affecting breathing, work/leisure, sexuality and mobility.

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by alteration in breathing, work/leisure, sexuality and mobility.

This unit will extend the students understanding of the relationships between stress, adaptation, mental health and the person's capacity to function in everyday life and the implications for professional nursing practice

This unit explores physical, social, political and community issues which impact on the health of children, adolescents and families. The knowledge gained will be appropriate for working with children and families within a hospital or community setting. The promotion of health and prevention of illness underpins this unit.

This unit will elaborate and consolidate mechanisms of health breakdown and complex nursing concepts and professional nursing practices that promote, maintain and support health and wellness. The focus is on providing professional nursing care of people who are experiencing acute, profound physiological, psychosocial and spiritual health breakdown.

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by serious mental health breakdown.

This unit engages students in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of professional nursing care for those individuals and their families living with a chronic illness and those dying from a life threatening illness.

This unit explores the transition to graduate practice from undergraduate nursing student to graduate professional registered nurse focusing on the role, responsibilities, accountabilities and options for the registered nurse.

This unit consolidates and assists student's synthesis of the major methodological approaches to support evidence-based practice, the process of research/inquiry and their application in the development of a defensible and justifiable nursing research project.

This unit introduces the student to the role of the professional nurse as leader and manager.

The health and wellbeing of older people reflect their genetic inheritance, the environment, lifestyle choices and a complex set of developmental experiences upon which individuals, groups and socio-political influences have impinged. Nevertheless, being or becoming old is only one part of a persons life experience. Thus, in order to understand being old, we need to have knowledge of such influences and experiences. By promoting the health and therefore the potential of people, nurses have the opportunity to be in the forefront of health care. This opportunity places nurses in a position to intervene therapeutically in the lives and upon the lifestyles of older people by working with individuals and groups to facilitate healthy ageing and by promoting positive attitudes towards ageing and older people.

This unit provides students with the opportunity to review: the pathophysiological aspects of health breakdown in individuals; the knowledge of pharmacological processes within nursing practice; and to demonstrate competency in skills essential to the nursing management of individuals with various types of health breakdown. In addition, students will complete a four-week negotiated clinical practicum prior to graduate employment.

Throughout history humans have sought to control their well-being whether it be in response to disease-producing microbes or situations inherent in modern day life. This unit examines an eclectic range of treatments and technologies. Some have been triggered by ancient and enduring infectious foes such as smallpox and the plague or emerging menaces including Ebola and SARS. Others are nested within contemporary living and may be constructed as communicable in the social sense. Selected issues will be explored including agents utilised in the alteration of sensory perception including hallucinogens as well as reaction to and manipulation of body image.

This unit deals with selected issues in drug use, misuse and abuse. An introductory section discusses mechanisms of drug action in the body and their likely effects. Some topical areas include recreational drugs, drugs in sport, vitamins and herbal supplements, oral contraceptives, antidepressants and weight management therapeutic agents.

This unit is designed to enable students studying health courses to gain insight into, and develop an understanding of health care delivery and contemporary issues confronting health care in Australia and in the study country in this study-abroad unit.