Critically reflect on the values and characteristics of professionalism that contribute to health care through collaboration, cooperation and therapeutic communication.
Unit Information 1 of 8 NUR120 Introduction to Professional Nursing Credit points: 10 Mode: Internal/External Assumed knowledge: Nil Location: Casaurina Pre-requisite(s): Nil Learning method: Online Reliant Year: 2015 Semester: 1 Unit coordinator: Lolita Wikander School: School of Health Phone: 08 89466832 Email: Lolita.wikander@cdu.edu.au Unit Description NUR 120 Introduction to the Profession of Nursing introduces students to health, wellness and illness as concepts within a primary health care framework; the art and science of nursing; the role and expectations of the nurse within an interdisciplinary team working in primary, secondary and tertiary settings in the Australian health care system. Foundation concepts in nursing as a profession, professionalism, scholarship, and health law and ethics are explored. Learning Outcomes On completion of this unit a student should be able to: 1. Identify ways in which history, language and culture have shaped nursing as a practice and as a scholarly discipline; 2. Critically reflect on the values and characteristics of professionalism that contribute to health care through collaboration, cooperation and therapeutic communication; 3. Articulate the key principles underlying ethical, legal and professional guidelines and codes that underpin the practice of registered nurses in Australia. 4. Demonstrate developing skills in academic and information literacy that provide a foundation for evidence based nursing. 5. Articulate and define the NMBA Competency Standards, Codes of Ethics and Codes of Practice for the Registered Nurse. 6. Develop a critical and reflexive approach to nursing practice.
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