Comprehensive Health Assessment and Learning for Nursing Practice (11858.1)

Health assessment is fundamental to knowledge and skill development for competent nursing practice. Students in this unit will develop skills to support comprehensive health assessment, situational awareness and communicating for safety in dynamic clinical settings. Information literacy, clinical reasoning and clinical judgement are core elements of this unit. In addition, students will demonstrate the recognition and use of data and information at a foundational level to inform safe practice and collaborative communication for safe person-centred health outcomes. This unit will also support students to explore the scope of nursing knowledge, linking health assessment approaches, clinical reasoning and critical thinking and, reflection for learning.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Identify and analyse health data to inform nursing care that promotes wellness and safety at a foundational level;
2. Use clinical reasoning and critical thinking to align comprehensive health assessment and the use of data to recognise health deterioration and identify therapeutic nursing outcomes;
3. Apply health assessment frameworks and clinical reasoning to inform safe and person-centred practice including solution focused goals of care;
4. Describe comprehensive health assessment using multiple forms of knowledge that is sensitive to diversity and people's health literacy and stage of life; and
5. Explore strategies for effective intra-professional and inter-professional communication using reflective and reflexive practice.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession

Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

This unit is only available to students enrolled in 364JA Bachelor of Nursing.

Incompatible units

None

Equivalent units

10191 Foundations for Professional Practice 2

Assumed knowledge

None.