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NURS12145 Aged Care Nursing

Course details

NURS12145 Aged Care Nursing explores the theory and practice of nursing elderly within a multi-cultural society. Students will develop understanding of the influences on aged care in Australia. This course will assist students in the development of the ability to plan, deliver and evaluate client centred nursing care to meet the health needs of older persons in a variety of settings. Students will develop skills that will enable them to undertake wound management, continence management and management of enteral nutrition. Students may be required to undertake up to 24 days of supervised clinical practice as a component of the course. It is a requirement of this course to have access to the CQU website and Internet. Students may study this course in either internal or flex mode. For students who elect to study the course in flex mode they will be required to attend a 8 hour residential school. There will be no out-of-town clinical placements for students situated in Bundaberg, Mackay and Rockhampton unless specifically requested by the student. This is subject to the availability of the out-of-town clinical placements. For students studying the program externally the opportunity for clinical placements will be in major regional centres and rural areas. Clinical placements will not be available in the Brisbane metropolitan area.


Course at a glance
Career: Undergraduate
Credit points: 6
Requisites: Pre requisites: NURS12142 Nursing in a Surgical Environment; NURS12141 Nursing in a Medical Environment; NURS12140 Disease Management Control and BIOH12008 Human Pathophysiology Co requisite: NURS12143 Family and Community Health
Student Contribution Band: 7
EFTSL: 0.12500
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Course availability
Term Campus
2008 Term Two BDG FLEX MKY ROK
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