HLTENN038 - Implement, monitor and evaluate nursing care
Nominal hours
Location
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to implement nursing care as outlined in a person’s nursing care plan, evaluate outcomes of care provided, record and report progress, and respond to emergency situations.
This unit applies to enrolled nursing work carried out in consultation and collaboration with registered nurses, and under supervisory arrangements aligned to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) regulatory authority legislative requirements.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• implement and monitor two different nursing plans of care in the workplace.
• evaluate one nursing plan of care
• use emergency codes and perform basic life support in a simulated environment on an adult, child and infant manikin according to organisational policies and procedures.
The tasks must be undertaken in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) professional practice standards, codes and guidelines.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• role of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and principles of cultural safety
• activities of daily living.
• factors that promote and impede comfort, sleep and rest
• purpose of hygiene and grooming.
• actual and potential nursing care including:
• hygiene
• eye care
• aural care
• continence and elimination
• continence management including aids and devices
• physical comfort
• sleep disturbances
• oral hygiene
• immobility
• respiration and circulation
• fluid and nutritional deficits
• pain assessment and interventions
• confirming underlying medical condition
• sensory deficits including use of personal aids and devices
• cognitive deficits
• allergic reactions
• severe intolerances
• age
• length of stay
• mental health condition
• pain
• presence of morbidity and co-morbidities
• basic life support using Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines
• risk prevention strategies:
• maintaining a safe environment
• preventing falls and falls assessment
• promoting active and passive exercises
• promoting deep breathing and coughing exercises
• maintaining skin integrity and pressure area care
• recording and reporting requirements for comprehensive clinical handovers
• organisational procedures for evaluation of nursing outcomes.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):