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DESCRIPTION:

This module aims to introduce you to unit management. Registered nurses who work in clinics or hospitals are confronted from the beginning of their working lives with the demands of management tasks to ensure the smooth functioning of the unit in which they work. Although these functions might take a back seat to master the clinical care delivery tasks at the beginning, they very soon become an increasing part of the job.

OVERALL LEARNING OUTCOMES

§  Demonstrate the ability to interrogate multiple sources of knowledge in Unit Management and Leadership and to evaluate knowledge and processes of knowledge production related to Unit Management and Leadership

§  Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities and uncertainties of selecting, applying, or transferring appropriate standard Unit Management and Leadership procedures, processes, or techniques to unfamiliar problems in Unit Management and Leadership

§  Demonstrate the ability to use a range of specialized skills to identify, analyze and address complex or abstract Unit Management and Leadership problems drawing systematically on the body of knowledge and methods appropriate to Unit Management and Leadership

§  Demonstrate the ability to identify and address ethical issues using critical reflection based on the suitability of different ethical value systems to the Unit Management and Leadership context

§  Management context to develop creative responses to problems and issues

§  Demonstrate the ability to present and communicate Unit Management and Leadership academic, professional/occupational ideas and reports effectively to a range of audiences, offering insights, rigorous interpretations, and solutions to problems and issues appropriate to the Unit Management and Leadership context

§  Demonstrate the ability to manage a nursing unit based on an understanding of the roles and relationships between elements within the Health Care System

§  Apply, in a self-critical manner, learning strategies that effectively address your own professional, and ongoing learning needs, including the professional and ongoing learning needs of others

§  Demonstrate the ability to take full responsibility for own work, decision making, and use of resources, as well as full accountability for the decisions and actions of others within a nursing unit.

§  Demonstrate the ability to critically review information gathering, synthesis of data, evaluation, and management processes in a Nursing

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.