Undergraduate Course: Nursing Care and Decision Making (NUST08011)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course will build on the concepts of communicating with adults who are in vulnerable situations as introduced in year 1. The concept of the nurses role in caring for the patient with a compromised homeostasis is explored in depth from the basis of developing a sound knowledge of the physiological norms and recognising when these are compromised and the physical, anatomical and psychological effect that this has upon the individual.
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| Course description |
This course will be taught over a twenty week period (ten weeks each semester) and will consist of the following content as applied to nursing care:
Neurology
Endocrinology
Bones and joints
Neoplasia
CHD and Vascular disturbance
Pharmacology
Nutritional health
CPR / Fire Safety / Manual Handling
Related nursing care
Revision week (student led)
The development of skills to ensure safe, effective, compassionate and respectful communication when dealing with people.
An introduction to team working through the student-mentorship relationship and learning through working with an experienced and competent practitioner
Each system will address the principles of normal biology, physiology and anatomy and introduce some basic principles of disease process and nursing priorities building where appropriate on knowledge acquired in year 1.
This course contributes to the spiral curriculum looking at the anatomy and physiology of the human body and the relation that this has on holistically nursing a patient with such disturbances. The foundations of knowledge about the physical workings of the human body are further developed in this course. Students are taught the physiological norms and then explore some deviation in these systems and how these might affect the individual and significant others.
This conforms to meeting the second level progression point of the NMC 2010 Standards for pre-registration adult nursing education. The course will also utilise e-learning and some lab based fora.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Nursing Life Sciences (NUST08014)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Have an awareness of biological mechanisms in relation to health building upon previous anotomical and pysical principles from year 1
- Be knowledgeable about the social determinants of health impacting on the individual, family and community concept of good physical health
- Understand the nutritional requirements in health and disease with specific reference to patients undergoing surgery
- Identify the important role which health and social care practitioners have in promoting individual, family and community enablement in maintaining their own health and wellbeing
- Further develop nursing reflective skills
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Maggie Carson
Tel: (0131 6)51 3928
Email: m.n.carson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Morven Sutherland
Tel: (0131 6)51 3972
Email: Morven.Sutherland@ed.ac.uk |
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