NUR3008 · Safety and quality in ageing and chronic conditions

Overview

This unit focuses on the essential requirements you will need to understand patient safety, quality care and risk management. There is a focus on the care of the older person and those with chronic conditions, including for priority populations. You will explore collaboration with the interprofessional team to enable safe and quality care of the older person and those with chronic conditions. You will examine the nursing and midwifery role in healthcare access, equity and service navigation for those from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, priority populations and those with chronic conditions. Strength-based and socially inclusive approaches for safe and quality nursing and midwifery practice and skills are emphasised.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Articulate risk-management principles to promote a culture of safety in the provision of care.
2. Examine principles of governance, safety and quality in health.
3. Discuss safety, quality and risk in older people and those living with chronic conditions.
4. Explore the impact of cognitive impairment on individuals, families and carers.
5. Examine psycho-social factors affecting older people and those living with chronic conditions.
6. Analyse the nursing role in healthcare access, equity and service navigation for those from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, priority populations and those living with chronic conditions.
7. Evaluate how the interprofessional teams collaborate to provide safe, quality care.

Workload

24 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials, interprofessional learning, online activities. Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.