Assessment, Diagnostics and Pharmacotherapeutics

Course aim

To further develop students’ knowledge and skills in assessment, clinical reasoning and pharmacotherapeutics to facilitate the provision of safe, comprehensive person-centred nursing care.

Course content

Conducting a comprehensive evidence based health assessment; diagnostic tests; clinical/diagnostic reasoning; reflection and critical thinking; clinical decision-making and problem-solving for clients with common health conditions; recognition of the deteriorating client; applied pharmacology including drug selection, detection and avoidance of drug-drug or drug-disease interactions and assessing therapeutic response; monitoring to prevent or detect adverse drug reactions; complementary and alternative therapies; therapeutic response; adverse drug reactions; medication errors; incident reporting; inter-professional practice; documentation; polypharmacy; drug interactions; quality use of medicines; national safety and quality health services standards; health informatics and telehealth.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
NURS 2023	Health of Adults
BIOL 2058	Scientific Basis of Clinical Practice

All stage 1 courses must be completed

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY EAST
Online (online content and discussion forums)	- x 9 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 5 weeks
Tutorial (online virtual classroom)	2 hours x 4 weeks
Workshop (on campus HHHS)	3 hours x 8 weeks
INTERNAL, WHYALLA
Online (online content and discussion forum)	- x 9 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 5 weeks
Tutorial (online virtual classroom)	2 hours x 4 weeks
Workshop (on -campus HHHS)	3 hours x 8 weeks
INTERNAL, MT GAMBIER
Online (online content and discussion forum)	- x 9 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 5 weeks
Tutorial (online virtual classroom)	2 hours x 4 weeks
Workshop (on-campus HHHS)	3 hours x 8 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY EAST, ONLINE
Online (online content and discussion forums)	- x 9 weeks
Tutorial (online virtual classroom)	2 hours x 9 weeks
Workshop (on campus HHHS)	6 hours x 4 days

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Clinical assessment/OSCE/OSCA, Essay, Examination

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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Non-award enrolment
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.