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

    Advanced Nursing Science 1
  • Unit Code

    NNS5113
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    5
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine MACKEY

Description

This unit will enable students to build on their knowledge of nursing science by examining biological concepts, homeostatic mechanisms and clinical assessment contextualised to their own clinical environment. Key principles and interventions for maintaining homeostasis during illness will be explored focusing on the effects of the stress response. Students have the opportunity to critically appraise contemporary evidence based practice guidelines relevant to their clinical practice and reflect on ethical, cultural and psychosocial dimensions of patient care.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise research findings to evaluate evidence based contemporary nursing practice
  2. Articulate the psychosocial, cultural and ethical factors that may impact on patients health and well-being.
  3. Critically examine a range of therapeutic approaches and interventions for maintaining homeostasis contextualised to a specific patient population
  4. Determine appropriate clinical assessment strategies and therapeutic interventions contextualised to a specific patient population

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary nursing science
  2. Holistic dimensions of care: Ethical, cultural and psychosocial
  3. Principles and interventions for maintaining homeostasis
  4. Evidence based practice: Critiquing an article/ protocol
  5. Alterations in homeostasis during illness/injury: Stress response
  6. Principles of clinical assessment

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online resources and learning materials are available on unit ECU learning platform. Students are encouraged to engage with online interactive tutorials and discussion forums as required.

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayDiscuss the stress response in relation to a specific patient population. 25%
AssignmentCritique of a clinical research article35%
Case StudyCase analysis of a patients case contextualised to students specialty area.40%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2014). Chronic illness and disability : principles for nursing practice (2nd ed., pp. xiii, 570). Chatswood, NSW: Elsevier Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/878406065
  • n.d. (2019). B. Ferrell & J. A. Paice (Eds.), Oxford textbook of palliative nursing (Fifth edition.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/610027152

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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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

    Advanced Nursing Science 1
  • Unit Code

    NNS5113
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    5
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine MACKEY

Description

This unit will enable students to build on their knowledge of nursing science by examining biological concepts, homeostatic mechanisms and clinical assessment contextualised to their own clinical environment. Key principles and interventions for maintaining homeostasis during illness will be explored focusing on the effects of the stress response. Students have the opportunity to critically appraise contemporary evidence based practice guidelines relevant to their clinical practice and reflect on ethical, cultural and psychosocial dimensions of patient care.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise research findings to evaluate evidence based contemporary nursing practice
  2. Articulate the psychosocial, cultural and ethical factors that may impact on patients health and well-being.
  3. Critically examine a range of therapeutic approaches and interventions for maintaining homeostasis contextualised to a specific patient population
  4. Determine appropriate clinical assessment strategies and therapeutic interventions contextualised to a specific patient population

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary nursing science
  2. Holistic dimensions of care: Ethical, cultural and psychosocial
  3. Principles and interventions for maintaining homeostasis
  4. Evidence based practice: Critiquing an article/ protocol
  5. Alterations in homeostasis during illness/injury: Stress response
  6. Principles of clinical assessment

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online resources and learning materials are available on unit ECU learning platform. Students are encouraged to engage with online interactive tutorials and discussion forums as required.

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayDiscuss the stress response in relation to a specific patient population. 25%
AssignmentCritique of a clinical research article35%
Case StudyCase analysis of a patients case contextualised to students specialty area.40%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2014). Chronic illness and disability : principles for nursing practice (2nd ed., pp. xiii, 570). Chatswood, NSW: Elsevier Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/878406065
  • n.d. (2019). B. Ferrell & J. A. Paice (Eds.), Oxford textbook of palliative nursing (Fifth edition.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/610027152

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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