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Welcome to Contemporary Issues in Critical Care Nursing (NURS 604 H1).  Contemporary Issues in Critical Care Nursing is a work integrated module (WIL). This means that the module comprises of a total of 160 hours spent in the clinical areas [80 hours] and the lab [80hours].  

The module enables students to extend and contextualise their knowledge of decision-making processes, typology and skills in preparation for their future role as specialist critical care nurses. Furthermore, Contemporary Issues in Critical Care Nursing explores the complexities of clinical decision-making in the critical care practice setting as influenced by issues in the context. Additionally, the module promotes application of evidence-based knowledge and analytical skills in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care that critical care patients and their families receive.

The module aims to provide the student with foundational knowledge regarding trauma and emergency nursing in order to complete the critical care continuum and allow critical care nurses to acquire transferrable skills in this continuum for ease of work allocation and rotation in such units. This is a clinical practice module that is foundational in the development of the trauma and emergency nursing speciality. The module will give students clinical exposure to the trauma and emergency care setting. The teaching and learning methodology adopted by this module encourages active participation of students, which is best served by case-based and competency based approaches to learning. 

Welcome to the Quality Management of a Dynamic Health Care services, the module code is NURS611, and its a 1st semester module. The module is designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop specialized knowledge and understanding of quality management approaches or theories, to integrate that knowledge in their daily management of health care institutions.

The graduate should be able to function as part of the multidisciplinary team through application of participative management approaches.

The content of the module is better understood and evaluated using the following principles:

 1.quality management within a health care institution

2.puporses of quality assurance and quality circled

3.stakeholders involved in quality management process

4.maintenance of standards in health care services

5.the process of accreditation and benchmarking

6.the importance of risk identification and its management

7. the application of quality management theories

This module provides the students with an overview of the major contemporary educational theories and philosophies that form the basis of education practice. The focus of the module ensures that students exhibit an understanding of the conceptual and theoretical foundation of these theories for application in nursing and midwifery education practice. The content provides an overview of learning and various theories from the beginning of the scientific study of human learning and mental processes. The roles of educators and students in the learning process and the impact of the classroom environment on learning is also examined.

Facilitator: Ms EN Pakkies

Campus:    Howard College

Building: Desmond Clarence 

Location: 5th Floor

Contact Number: 031 2601783

E-mail:       pakkies@ukzn.ac.za

This module on assessment and evaluation of learning in nursing education is an elective module in the Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Education. Assessment plays a vital role in how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how educators teach the required content. It is embedded in the learning process, helping educators to gain insight into what students understand, how they learn, and how they can be better served. Student learning is best supported when instruction and assessment are based on clear learning outcomes, and differentiated according to student learning needs. The module presents a comprehensive overview of tools and processes for the assessment, evaluation and reporting of student achievement. It covers assessment principles, planning assessments and evaluation of learning, managing of the examination process and the results of the evaluation and relevant institutional policies. The module is divided into unit, with each unit having specific learning outcome, content outlines, learning activities/tasks for the students to self-evaluate and enhance learning.