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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Nursing Bioscience 3
  • Unit Code

    NSC6103
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Amanda Clair GRAF

Description

This unit builds on Nursing Bioscience 1 and 2 and utilises a case study approach to further develop knowledge of pathophysiology and collaborative care of diabetes emergencies, severe burn injuries and deteriorating client states. Students will detail the role of the nurse in the recognition of the deteriorating adult and child, appraise the associated track and trigger strategies and define their role within the multi-professional team in the escalation of clinical management in a variety of health care settings.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed Nursing Bioscience 1 (NSC6101) and Nursing Bioscience 2 (NSC6102)

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Detail the management of patients with diabetic emergencies.
  2. Detail the management of patients with severe burn injury.
  3. Utilise knowledge and skills to deliver prioritised evidence-based care for the deteriorating patient.
  4. Analyse the physiological antecedents to deterioration in adults and children.
  5. Critique a range of contemporary escalation systems in a range of health care contexts.
  6. Rationalise the role of multidisciplinary team members in the management of the deteriorating patient.
  7. Synthesise the impact of the deteriorating patient initiatives within health care.

Unit Content

  1. Diabetic emergencies.
  2. Severe burn injury.
  3. Track and trigger escalation systems.
  4. The physiology of clinical deterioration (adults & children).
  5. The role of the multidisciplinary team in management of the deteriorating patient.
  6. Clinical management priorities of the deteriorating patient.
  7. The deteriorating patient in primary and secondary health care settings.
  8. National and international initiatives pertaining to the deteriorating patient.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestQuiz30%
EssayAnalysis of an aspect of management of the deteriorating patient.30%
Case StudyCritical review of a clinical situation40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Nursing Bioscience 3
  • Unit Code

    NSC6103
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Amanda Clair GRAF

Description

This unit builds on Nursing Bioscience 1 and 2 and utilises a case study approach to further develop knowledge of pathophysiology and collaborative care of diabetes emergencies, severe burn injuries and deteriorating client states. Students will detail the role of the nurse in the recognition of the deteriorating adult and child, appraise the associated track and trigger strategies and define their role within the multi-professional team in the escalation of clinical management in a variety of health care settings.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed Nursing Bioscience 1 (NSC6101) and Nursing Bioscience 2 (NSC6102)

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Detail the management of patients with diabetic emergencies.
  2. Detail the management of patients with severe burn injury.
  3. Utilise knowledge and skills to deliver prioritised evidence-based care for the deteriorating patient.
  4. Analyse the physiological antecedents to deterioration in adults and children.
  5. Critique a range of contemporary escalation systems in a range of health care contexts.
  6. Rationalise the role of multidisciplinary team members in the management of the deteriorating patient.
  7. Synthesise the impact of the deteriorating patient initiatives within health care.

Unit Content

  1. Diabetic emergencies.
  2. Severe burn injury.
  3. Track and trigger escalation systems.
  4. The physiology of clinical deterioration (adults & children).
  5. The role of the multidisciplinary team in management of the deteriorating patient.
  6. Clinical management priorities of the deteriorating patient.
  7. The deteriorating patient in primary and secondary health care settings.
  8. National and international initiatives pertaining to the deteriorating patient.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestQuiz30%
Case StudyCritical review of a clinical situation30%
ExaminationOpen book timed assessment focus on the management of the deteriorating patient.40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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