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This subject will provide you with the skills, knowledge and attitudes required by Registered Nurses in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of person-centred care for people experiencing simple common acute illness requiring hospitalisation.  You will examine communication and other strategies to facilitate safe interactions in the healthcare context. The importance of partnering with consumers and involving patient in their care planning will be explored. Evidenced Based Practice will be further developed. Further nursing theories will be explored. You will also be encouraged to further explore occupational health and safety as it relates to healthcare delivery. Included care of patients with all abilities. You will be introduced to the theoretical basis of pharmacology including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and to the role of controlling the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Responsibilities, practical skills, and scope of practice of the registered nurse in medication administration related to oral and topical. Through application of aseptic and infection control principles discuss ways to control healthcare associated infection.

The three-week clinical placement will allow you to integrate theoretical principles to the nursing practice of patients that is underpinned by nursing theory. In this placement you will undertake health assessments with assigned patients and use the data obtained to develop person-centred plans of care considering principles of personal and patient safety and interprofessional practice in acute and subacute inpatient care settings. This subject will also introduce students to ethics and law as it relates to nursing practice.