HNN743 - Principles of Complex Intraoperative Nursing Care
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Cloud (online) with significant campus requirements |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Pat Nicholson |
| Cohort rule: | Must be enrolled in H771 |
| Prerequisite: | HNN740 |
| Corequisite: | HNN742 |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Theoretical component 3 hours per week - a combination of cloud (online) modules and on-campus seminars. Students will be expected to undertake an additional 7 hours per week of independent study |
| In-person attendance requirements: | Theoretical component 3 hours per week - a combination of on campus classes, cloud (online) modules and seminars. |
Note:This unit is part of the Perioperative Specialty stream of the Master of Advanced Nursing for students who are also employed in a suitable clinical area in partnership with Deakin University. ^Students enrol as Cloud (online) students, however there are significant campus requirements. | |
Content
This unit focuses on further developing the speciality knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required for intraoperative nursing practice. There is a focus on the student’s ability to manage complex and special populations and to identify risk and inform decisions that deliver safe, high quality nursing care in order to promote optimal patient outcomes.
This unit covers the role of specialist intraoperative nurse in comprehensively managing patients across the life cycle undergoing surgery in relation to the concepts and principles of intraoperative techniques in complex and specialty populations; assessment and management of elective and emergency patients undergoing complex and specialty surgical procedures; and applying core principles of intraoperative practice in a range of novel, ill-structured, complex time critical surgical cases.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Demonstrate safe clinical assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation skills in time critical intraoperative patients. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Integrate situational awareness, task management, clinical knowledge, technical skill and non-technical skills into intraoperative nursing practice in order to provide safe, competent care in a specialist intraoperative setting. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Formulate and adapt an individualised plan of care for patients undergoing a range of surgical specialties, according to anticipated specific complications associated with the specialty. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Plan, prepare and manage specialty equipment necessary for a variety of surgical specialties. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Employ a risk management strategies to prevent or mitigate potential complications. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Integration of accurate, high quality communication and teamwork patterns within the multidisciplinary team. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 2:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Written assignment | 1500 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 2: End of unit assessment | 2 hours | 60% |
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| Assessment 3: Clinical assessments | Pass/Fail |
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Both the theoretical and clinical components of the assessment must be passed in order to successfully gain an overall pass in this unit. Clinical assessments form part of the assessment of this unit. Recognition of the importance of clinical assessments is calculated in the overall student workload.
Note: Failure of a compulsory practicum component in a unit will normally lead to exclusion.
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
- Assessment 3: Clinical assessments Pass/Fail
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HNN743 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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