Program Overview

NUR246 - Community Nursing Care 2

Overview

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Academic Contacts

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Offerings

The following offerings are available for this unit:

• MANDURAH-S2N-FACE2FACE-
  • Teaching period code: Semester 2-S2N
  • Location: Mandurah
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: 2025
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-S2N-FACE2FACE-
  • Teaching period code: Semester 2-S2N
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: 2025
  • Self enrol: Yes

Requisites

Prerequisite

• NUR134: Nursing Bioscience 2 (3 cp)
• NUR237: Evidence Based Nursing Practice (3 cp) OR
• BNR200: Evidence Based Nursing Practice (3 cp)
• NUR135: Nursing Practice 2: Health Assessment (3 cp)
• NUR138: Clinical Practice 1 (3 cp)

Exclusion

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Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning at a semester 4 level when caring for individuals and groups in community and primary health care settings.
2. Apply ethical and legal principles when assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care in the community care setting.
3. Describe the importance of health promotion, health education and behaviour change to implementing person-centred care in the community healthcare setting.
4. Demonstrate the safe nursing management of symptoms and pharmacotherapeutics in a range of chronic or lifestyle related illness.
5. Compare the psychosocial impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families and communities.

Assessments

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Additional Information

Unit content includes:

• Role of the Community Nurse
• Primary Health Care
• Rural and Remote nursing
• Caring for diverse patient groups
• Respiratory Disorders II - COPD, Corticosteroids
• Endocrine II pathophysiology and pharmacology
• Role of Diabetes Speciality Nurse
• Immunological wound healing and assessment - PVD
• Immunological Infection, wound healing, fever, antibiotics
• Neurovascular Disorders II - CVA/TIA/SAH
• Role of the Rehabilitation Nurse
• Managing Chronic diseases in the community

Unit Details

• Unit version: 18
• Version start date: 01/07/2025
• End date: 31/12/2025
• Owning college: College of Health and Education
• Owning school: Nursing
• Credit points: 3