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/

Weekly Work

Requirements

Learning

outcomes

Week 1 Musculoskeletal

Lecture 1

Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Osteoarthritis and Total knee replacement Workshop: Activities focussing on post-operative Total hip replacement.

Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.

OA, Post operative THR

Week 2 Musculoskeletal 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

Week 3 Neurological

Lecture 2

Tutorial: Scenario focussing on acute CVA and rehabilitation needs. Workshop: Activities focussing on semi-comatose/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

Lecture 3

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

Lecture 4

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

Week 8 Renal/urinary 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.

instruction.

Week 9 Gastrointestinal

Lecture 5

Tutorial: Scenario focussing on Large bowel obstruction leading to colostomy formation. Workshop: Activities focussing on post-operative hemi-colectomy and colostomy care.

Weekly tutorial discussion and feedback to scenario questions. Weekly workshop nursing interventions feedback and instruction.

Bowel obstruction leading to hemi-colectomy and colostomy formation. Post operative care.

Week 10 Hepatobiliary Tutorial: Scenario focussing on pancreatitis secondary to cholelithiasis. Workshop: Activities focussing on post-operative 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

Lecture 6

Tutorial: Scenario focussing on various haematological problems - Iron-deficiency 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.

Week 12 Reproductive –

Female focus

Lecture 7

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.

Week 13 Reproductive -

Male focus

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.

Week 14 No Classes Assignment 1 (RLL& CER) due.

Assignment 3 (OSCE) due

Week 15 No Classes Assignment 2 (Nursing case study) due.

Assignment 3 (OSCE) due

Week 16 No Classes