Health Assessment and Clinical Nursing
Safety, Health and Environment (SHE)
Course Overview
| This subject facilitates the development of health assessment across the lifespan for advancing nursing practice. The subject will focus on factors impacting on a mental and physical health assessment, and will include history taking, clinical examination skills and diagnostic testing, to obtain relevant data. Students will develop skills in the integration of knowledge, analysis, problem solving, solution focused interventions and recovery and diagnostic reasoning, to interpret evidence in complex and challenging clinical situations. Factors impacting on health assessment in the rural and remote setting will be explored. A collaborative competency based learning contract will be developed in consultation with the Subject Coordinator and a Professional Experience Mentor. Students undertaking this subject will negotiate mentoring from a suitably qualified health professional to practice health assessment skills, and if necessary, negotiate with their employer to work in the specialty area for a certain time, to meet their learning objectives in the subject. |
Course Objectives
- Be able to apply comprehensive health assessment and examination techniques to obtain information from health consumers across the lifespan.
- Be able to apply critical thinking skills and a variety of diagnostic decision making principles to assist the health consumers recovery.
- Be able to integrate and apply knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology in the formulation of accurate diagnoses.
- Be able to demonstrate advanced communication skills to obtain information and effectively communicate health assessment findings and/or diagnoses to consumers and interdisciplinary health professionals.
- Be able to identify and apply how the biological, psychological, social, as well as, the features of the rural and remote environment, impact on the health of the consumer and service provision.
- Be able to apply the principles of cultural competence to advanced nursing practice with individuals and families when undertaking a health assessment.
- Be able to recognise and apply legal and ethical frameworks in the conduct of health assessment in advanced nursing practice.
- Be able to facilitate collaboration with the inter-professional team.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Analysis, problem solving and diagnostic decision making principles, solution focused interventions and recovery.
- Module 2: Pathophysiology as evidence to inform clinical decision making.
- Module 3: Case study framework (including one with a focus on Indigenous peoples) for health assessment of the following systems: neurological, ear nose and throat, mental health, cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal/diabetes (endocrine), gastrointestinal genito urinary, musculoskeletal inflammatory, skin and the psychological and social domains.
- Module 4: Advanced communication skills in history taking, assessment, examination and disbursement of findings. Advanced communication during assessment involving consultation with families/carers of vulnerable people including people with an intellectual disability and/or mental health issues.
- Module 5: Mental and physical health assessment skills and examination techniques including people with complex needs e.g. people with an intellectual disability and/or mental health issues.
- Module 6: Sources of health information. Retrieval, analysis and synthesis of data.
- Module 7: Biological, psychological, social, and rural and remote environmental factors.
- Module 8: Cultural competence.
- Module 9: Ethical and legal frameworks. Policies and protocols
Study Online
$250.00
1 Week Face to Face Classes
$2500.00
2 Week Face to Face Classes
$3200.00
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- 1-2 Weeks Classes
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