Course overview
To further enhance students’ knowledge and skills in health assessment, clinical reasoning, and pharmacotherapeutics, strengthening their ability to deliver safe, comprehensive, and person-centred nursing care across a range of complex clinical settings.
- Critical care nursing
- Peri operative nursing
- Cancer and palliative care nursing
Course learning outcomes
- Discuss ethical, spiritual and cultural aspects of palliative nursing, including an indigenous perspective
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and manage patient deterioration, provide compassionate end-of-life care, and apply ethical principles in clinical decision-making as a beginning RN
- Demonstrate an understanding of pre, intra and postoperative patient assessment and nursing interventions, including considerations for special patient populations across the lifespan
- Describe principles and nursing considerations for surgical conscience, asepsis and infection control, scrubbing, gowning and gloving with application of knowledge and skills for assessing and caring for a patient with a complex wound, including burns
- Explore applications of anaesthetic care, pain (including chronic pain management for palliative care patients), nausea and vomiting management in patients with complex needs
- Understand and relate anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology to effectively care for patients in perioperative, critical care, and palliative care environments
- Discuss and apply nursing assessment skills to patients with complex needs within the perioperative, critical care and palliative care environments