Course Title: Provide nursing care for clients requiring palliative care
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2015
Course Code: NURS5292C
Course Title: Provide nursing care for clients requiring palliative care
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5313 - Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled-Division 2 Nursing)
Course Contact: Leeanne Mond
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4837
Course Contact Email: leeanne.mond@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Course Coordinator: Pamela Maher
Email: Pamela.maher@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9925 4299
Nominal Hours: 50
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
NIL PRE REQUISITES
This unit is delivered with HLTEN515B AND HLTEN502B
Course Description
This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required in providing palliative care to clients with life-limiting illness and their family
The knowledge and skills described in this competency unit are to be applied within jurisdictional nursing and midwifery regulatory authority legislative requirements. Enrolled/Division 2 nursing work is to be carried out in consultation/collaboration with registered nurses
and under direct or indirect supervisory arrangements in line with jurisdictional regulatory requirements
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTEN511B Provide nursing care for clients requiring palliative care |
Element: |
1. Recognise the special needs of clients requiring a palliative approach to care |
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this unit students should be able to:
• Describe the skills and knowledge required in providing palliative care to clients with life-limiting illness and their family
• Contribute to care planning and implement interventions for those with life limiting illness
Details of Learning Activities
• Classroom Delivery
• Self Directed Learning
• Laboratories
• Clinical Placement Hours
Teaching Schedule
Lesson 1: Effective Communication
Lesson 2: Roles of Healthcare
Lesson 3: Conflict resolution
Lesson 4: Open Disclosure
Lesson 5: Assessment 1 Questionnaire
Lesson 6: Theory of Ageing
Lesson 7: Disease Process:
Lesson 8: Activities of Daily Living
Lesson 9: ACAS/ACAT
Lesson 10: Care Planning
Lesson 11: Aged Care Funding Instrument
Lesson 12: Complex Issues
Lesson 13: Massage in Palliative Care
Lesson 14: Dementia
Lesson 15: Needs Recognition
Lesson 16: Symptoms of Dying
Lesson 17: Loss & Grief
Lesson 18: Last Rites
Computer Lab 1. Computer IT Lab
Nursing Lab 2. Activities of Daily Living - Part 1 & 2
Nursing Lab 3. Remedial Massage in Palliative care - Part 1 & 2
Nursing Lab 4. Documentation
Nursing Lab 5. Pain Part 1, Last Rites Part 2
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Kozier and Erb’s (2014) 3rd ed.,Vols 1,2,3.Fundamentals of nursing. Pearson. Australia |
References
Listed within PowerPoint slides and Blackboard |
Other Resources
Other Textbooks
- Accessible as eBooks via the RMIT Library (also able for download or purchase)
- Brown, D., Edwards, H. (eds) 2014, 4th ed., Lewis’s medical surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems, Marrickville, NSW, Elsevier Australia
- Tollefson, J., (2014) Clinical Psychomotor skills: assessment tools for nursing students. 5th ed.,South Melbourne. Centgage Learnin
Additional resources:
- Online via RMIT Blackboard (students require frequent access to computers, internet and printing facilities)
Overview of Assessment
Underpinning knowledge for this unit of competency will be assessed via the following methods:
- Class group presentation / Debate
- Written Assessment
- Clinical Placement
Assessment Tasks
• Lab computer hurdle
• Classroom presentation
• Group work – Care Plan
• MP4 video assessment
Assessment tasks will be assessed in conjunction with HLTEN515B and HLTEN502B
Assessment Matrix
See assessment matrix on Blackboard
Other Information
Submitted Assessments will be awarded “Satisfactory” or “Not Satisfactory”.
All assessments must have a Satisfactory grade in order to be deemed competent in this cluster unit.
Assessment Information Please refer to the RMIT assessment policies for, special consideration, extensions of time, equitable assessment arrangements and future assessment adjustments. www.rmit.edu.au/browes:ID=ad)oagg9uc111
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Re-submission of assessment
One further opportunity to demonstrate Clinical Lab competence, will be provided to students if not deemed Satisfactory at the time of clinical assessment.
Re-submission of Written work, or other assessments , (once only. Excluding Exams) can be granted on recommendation from the teacher and approval by Program Coordinator.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is a form of cheating in assessment and may occur in oral, written or visual presentations. It is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is your own: http://rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity
Turnitin
Is an online service, in to which teachers and students submit student assignments into a large database, via Blackboard, refer Turnitin website
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