NUR203: Medical and Surgical Nursing I

This unit will address specific physiological and psychological responses and associated nursing care related to various pathophysiological mechanisms of disease.  Knowledge, scenarios, competencies and skills will be relevant to body systems being studied in order to determine best practice nursing care based on evidence and research.  The integration of legal and bioethical principles relevant to clinical practice, along with related pharmacology and therapeutics for the respective systems will be explored.  Students will demonstrate knowledge and competencies in structured clinical practice.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Peel: S1-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 2 hours per week; workshop: 2 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Completion of Part I of the Bachelor of Nursing.
School	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Unit Coordinator	Mr Michael Hall Position: Nursing Lecturer E-mail: M.Hall@murdoch.edu.au Location: Peel Campus Peel100 Room 2.009 Phone: Prefix: +618 9582 5532
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Mr Michael Hall Nursing Lecturer (M.Hall@murdoch.edu.au) 9582 5532 Peel Campus Peel100 Room 2.009 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)