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School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Health Issues in Gerontology

  • Unit Code

    NNI5104

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit will examine normal age related changes to physical and psychological health as well as commonly experienced deviations from healthy ageing. Health assessments of elderly people, relevant interventions and approaches to care will be addressed from a practical and a theoretical perspective.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply theoretical knowledge of normal ageing processes to health assessments and health promotion strategies.
  2. Construct a range of health interventions for maximum therapeutic benefit for the older person.
  3. Demonstrate competency in key areas of advanced gerontological health care practice.
  4. Determine appropriate interventions and approaches to promote health and/or wellbeing in an older person.
  5. Summarise deviations from healthy ageing during the assessment process.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced clinical competencies in gerontological practice.
  2. Changes in structure and function associated with normal ageing.
  3. Common deviations from healthy ageing.
  4. Culturally sensitive care of the older person.
  5. Health assessment of the older person.
  6. Promoting health in the older person.
  7. Theories of ageing.
  8. Therapeutic health care interventions and approaches to care of the older person.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Blackboard, on-line learning tools.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase study critique60%
PerformanceCompetency assessment40%

Text References

  • ^ Eliopoulos, C. (2014). Gerontological nursing (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • Hunter, S. (2012). Miller's Nursing for wellness in older adults. Sydney, Australia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • Miller, C. A. (2012). Nursing for wellness in older adults (6th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • Nay, R., Garratt, S. & Featherstonhaugh, D. (Eds.). (2014). Older people: Issues and innovations in care (4th ed.). NSW, Australia: Churchill Livingstone.
  • Tabloski, P. A. (2010). Gerontological nursing (2nd ed.). New Jersey, NJ: Pearson.
  • Burbank, V, C. (2013). An ethnography of stress: the social determinants of health in Aboriginal Australia. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Taylor, K., & Guerin, P. (2010). Health care and Indigenous Australians: cultural safety in practice. Victoria, Australia: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal References

  • Australasian Journal on Ageing
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Journal of Gerontological Nursing
  • Journal of Palliative Nursing
  • Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Website References

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

NNI5104|2|1

School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Health Issues in Gerontology

  • Unit Code

    NNI5104

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit will examine normal age related changes to physical and psychological health as well as commonly experienced deviations from healthy ageing. Health assessments of elderly people, relevant interventions and approaches to care will be addressed from a practical and a theoretical perspective.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply theoretical knowledge of normal ageing processes to health assessments and health promotion strategies.
  2. Construct a range of health interventions for maximum therapeutic benefit for the older person.
  3. Demonstrate competency in key areas of advanced gerontological health care practice.
  4. Determine appropriate interventions and approaches to promote health and/or wellbeing in an older person.
  5. Summarise deviations from healthy ageing during the assessment process.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced clinical competencies in gerontological practice.
  2. Changes in structure and function associated with normal ageing.
  3. Common deviations from healthy ageing.
  4. Culturally sensitive care of the older person.
  5. Health assessment of the older person.
  6. Promoting health in the older person.
  7. Theories of ageing.
  8. Therapeutic health care interventions and approaches to care of the older person.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Blackboard, on-line learning tools.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase study critique60%
PerformanceCompetency assessment40%

Text References

  • ^ Eliopoulos, C. (2014). Gerontological nursing (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • Burbank, V, C. (2013). An ethnography of stress: the social determinants of health in Aboriginal Australia. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, S. (2012). Miller's Nursing for wellness in older adults. Sydney, Australia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • Miller, C. A. (2012). Nursing for wellness in older adults (6th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • Nay, R., Garratt, S. & Featherstonhaugh, D. (Eds.). (2014). Older people: Issues and innovations in care (4th ed.). NSW, Australia: Churchill Livingstone.
  • Taylor, K., & Guerin, P. (2010). Health care and Indigenous Australians: cultural safety in practice. Victoria, Australia: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Tabloski, P. A. (2010). Gerontological nursing (2nd ed.). New Jersey, NJ: Pearson.

Journal References

  • Australasian Journal on Ageing
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Journal of Gerontological Nursing
  • Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
  • Journal of Palliative Nursing

Website References

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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