Topic content outline Topic code: NURS2105
Topic title: Nursing 4 - Semester 2 2008
Delivery methods & teaching and learning strategies:
Lecture (1 hour) – Weeks 1,3,5,7,9,11, and 12 Tutorial (2 hours) – Weeks 1-13 (all tutorials allocate time for student RLL completion). Workshops (2 hours) – Weeks 1-13 (includes OSCE assessment in late semester).
Practicum – DEU 16 days – 2 days per week for 8 weeks – commencing Week 8, or BLOCK 16 days – 4 days per week for 4 weeks – commencing: Group 1 – Group 2 –
Materials: Printed Study plan (will automatically be put on WebCT as a PDF) Printed Workbook for nursing workshop attendance (will be put on WebCT as a PDF) Support material on WebCT e.g. PowerPoint presentations, additional web sites Text - Brown, D & Edwards, H (eds) 2005, Lewis’s medical-surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems, Elsevier Mosby, Sydney. Other - Workshop video and DVD inclusion where appropriate. Content outline:
Weekly Lectures
Weekly Curriculum Focus
Assessment/
Learning
Weekly Work
outcomes
Requirements Week 1 Musculoskeletal
Lecture 1
Week 2 Musculoskeletal
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Osteoarthritis and Total knee replacement Workshop: Activities focussing on postoperative Total hip replacement.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
OA, Post operative THR
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Osteomyelitis Workshop: Activities
Weekly tutorial discussion and
Osteomyelitis and related
focussing on Osteomyelitis and related musculoskeletal fracture nursing care.
feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
musculoskeletal Fracture
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on acute CVA and rehabilitation needs. Workshop: Activities focussing on semicomatose/concussed patient.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
CVA, Comatose assessment, related CVA.
Week 4 Neurological
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on raised ICP. Workshop: Activities focussing on raised ICP and rehabilitation needs.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
ICP assessment and care. Post trauma patient care.
Week 5 Endocrine
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Diabetes Type 1 and hypoglycaemic sate. Workshop: Activities focussing on Diabetes Type 1 and hypoglycaemic sate nursing management.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
Diabetes Type 1 and hypoglycaemic management.
Week 6 Endocrine
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Diabetes Type 2 and HHNS hyperglycaemic state. Workshop: Activities focussing on Diabetes Type 2 and HHNS hyperglycaemic state.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
Diabetes Type 2 and HHNS Hyperglycaemic management.
Week 7 Renal/urinary
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Chronic renal disease (CRD) leading to End stage renal failure (ESRF). Workshop: Activities focussing on post-operative arterio-venous fistula due to ESRF culminating in Renal Dialysis
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
CRD and ESRF. Post operative AVF management. Renal Dialysis
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on urinary SPC and secondary UTI. Workshop: Activities focussed on acute UTI care and SPC management and related discharge planning.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and
Acute UTI management secondary to SPC. Rehabilitation care for SPC.
Week 3 Neurological
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Week 8 Renal/urinary
instruction.
Week 9 Gastrointestinal
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Large bowel obstruction leading to colostomy formation. Workshop: Activities focussing on post-operative hemicolectomy and colostomy care.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
Bowel obstruction leading to hemicolectomy and colostomy formation. Post operative care.
Week 10 Hepatobiliary
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on pancreatitis secondary to cholelithiasis. Workshop: Activities focussing on postoperative open cholecystectomy.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
Pancreatitis, cholelithiasis, open cholecystectomy. Post operative care.
Week 11 Haematology
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on various haematological problems - Irondeficiency anaemia, Neutropenia, and Thrombocytopenia. Workshop: Activities focussing on various activities relating to OSCE examination preparation.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
Iron-deficiency anaemia, Neutropenia, and Thrombocytopenia. OSCE practice workshop session.
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on endometriosis and its management options. Workshop: Activities focussing on post -operative management of an abdominal hysterectomy.
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
Endometriosis and Post -operative management of an abdominal hysterectomy.
Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) and its management options. Workshop: Activities focussing on post-operative management of bladder irrigation following a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).
Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). Post operative management of TURP.
No Classes
Assignment 1 (RLL& CER) due.
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Week 12 Reproductive – Female focus
Lecture 7
Week 13 Reproductive Male focus
Week 14
Assignment 3 (OSCE) due Week 15
No Classes
Assignment 2 (Nursing case study) due.
Assignment 3 (OSCE) due Week 16
No Classes