NUR100: Introduction to the Nursing Profession

This unit will introduce the student to the intricacies of the nursing profession.  It will provide a broad overview of historical and current healthcare trends, concepts and principles underpinning and influencing the profession.  A number of prerequisite competencies, activities of daily living, communication and essential nursing skills will be introduced that are required by students to provide safe nursing care for clients.  These learned competencies will be demonstrated and applied during structured clinical practice.

Points	3
Enrolment Options	Peel: S1-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 2 hours per week; workshop: 2 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Enrolment in Bachelor of Nursing.
School	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Unit Coordinator	Mrs Prue Andrus Position: Lecturer E-mail: P.Andrus@murdoch.edu.au Location: Peel Campus Peel100 Room 2.009 Phone: Prefix: +618 9582 5514
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Ms Sharryn Batt (S.Batt@murdoch.edu.au) Peel Campus Building Peel100 PEEL S1: Internal (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)