Recommended Study Sequence

This unit introduces the student to nursing concepts, principles and skills that identify, promote, maintain and support health and wellbeing across the lifespan.

This unit introduces the student to concepts and mechanisms involved in normal body functions and the maintenance of normal activities of living that inform professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces the student to psycho-social concepts and principles that underpin human behaviour and inform professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces the student to the basic constructs that form professional nursing and nursing practice.

This unit introduces students to professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are affected by health breakdown.

This unit introduces students to the concepts and mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces the student to psychosocial concepts and principles that promote and sustain the health of communities and informs professional nursing practice.

This unit introduces students to further constructs that inform professional nursing and nursing practice related to health breakdown.

This unit will elaborate on professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are experiencing health breakdown affecting eating, drinking, nutrition and elimination.

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by alteration in eating, drinking, nutrition and elimination.

This unit provides the student with opportunities to investigate and discuss health issues as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Further, this unit will enable the student to understand the role of the nurse in health promotion programs for Indigenous and/or Torres Strait Island people.

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected in breathing, work/leisure, sexuality and mobility.

This unit will extend the student’s understanding of the relationships between stress, adaptation, mental health and the person’s capacity to function in everyday life and the implications for professional nursing practice.

This unit explores physical, social, political and community issues which impact on the health of children, adolescents and families. The knowledge gained will be appropriate for working with children and families within a hospital or community setting. The promotion of health and prevention of illness underpines this unit.

This unit will elaborate and consolidate mechanisms of health breakdown and complex nursing concepts and professional nursing practices that promote, maintain and support health and wellness. The focus is on providing professional nursing care of people who are experiencing acute, profound physiological, psychosocial and spiritual health breakdown.

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by serious mental health breakdown.

This unit engages students in advanced assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of professional nursing care for those individuals and their families living with a chronic illness and those dying from a life threatening illness. The unit will enable the student to collaboratively work with medical students to apply nursing skills and critical thinking skills to the challenges of patients with chronic and life threatening illnesses. The unit will enable the student to undertake an advanced health assessment , apply critical thinking skills in nursing practice and to understand the impact of chronic and life threatening illness on the nurse, client and their family.

This unit explores the transition to graduate practice from undergraduate nursing student to graduate professional registered nurse focusing on the role, responsibilities, accountabilities and options for the registered nurse.

The health and wellbeing of older people reflect their genetic inheritance, the environment, lifestyle choices and a complex set of developmental experiences upon which individuals, groups and socio-political influences have impinged. Nevertheless, being or becoming 'old' is only one part of a person's life experience. Thus, in order to understand 'being old', we need to have knowledge of such influences and experiences. By promoting the health and therefore the potential of people, nurses have the opportunity to be in the forefront of health care. This opportunity places nurses in a position to intervene therapeutically in the lives and upon the lifestyles of older people by working with individuals and groups to facilitate healthy aging and by promoting positive attitudes towards ageing and older people.

This unit introduces the student to the role of the professional nurse as leader and manager. The unit provides opportunities to explore the role of the nurse as leader and manager of a team alongside medical students. The student will be provided with an opportunity to participate in a mentored relationship with appropriate School and College staff.