School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Care of the Older Person 1
  • Unit Code

    NUR5211
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sheridan READ

Description

This unit is designed to expand students’ knowledge of contemporary care in relation to the older persons’ holistic well-being. Students will explore and analyse the evidence-based delivery of care and services to meet the needs of older persons experiencing a range of neurocognitive and mental health disorders and support their holistic well-being. The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and the Aged Care Quality Standards provide the framework within which students will develop the knowledge and skills to support multiple care domains of the older person in a variety of settings.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explore contemporary and collaborative approaches to work with older people to provide support and holistic care, to promote physical, emotional, and social well-being.
  2. Discuss the impact on an ageing society and what it means to live well as an older person in the 21st Century.
  3. Examine the influence of an individual's past and present lived experiences on the holistic well-being of older people, considering factors such as physical health, mental well-being, and social connectedness.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to holistic needs and contemporary care of the older person in an ageing society.
  2. Contemporary care of the older person experiencing common neurocognitive and physical health conditions.
  3. Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of the older person.
  4. Collaborative and contemporary approaches to deliver holistic care to the older person to support wellbeing.
  5. Understanding what it means to live with neurocognitive and age related disorders in the current context.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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.

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TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study essay50%
AssignmentReflective Essay50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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