Safe drug therapy.

Evaluate drug regimens to support appropriate and safe drug therapy.

The disability sector in Australia.

Identify changes in the legal, political and social frameworks within the disability sector in Australia.

health healing practice

1. Discuss how the health healing practice (medicine wheel) of the Indigenous group can be applied in your
current clinical setting.
2. Reflect and discuss how the health-healing practice  (medicine wheel) identified affects client outcomes in
current and future nursing practice.

 

* include references

The Health and Medicine Division

Determine which recommendations from The Health and Medicine Division directly affect how nurses provide care at the bedside.

Pharmacological actions of medications

Differentiate the pharmacological actions of medications used to treat common disease entities

cultural safety strategies

1. Describe one way to agree on outcomes against which cultural safety strategies can be measured. 2. Identify three things you can do to ensure that you involve Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander people in evaluations. 3. Describe one way to evaluate programs and services against desired outcomes. 4. Outline one way to revise strategies based on evaluation with appropriate engagement of Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander people. 5. Discuss the indigenous Employment program( IEP). What are some of the benefits of employing and training indigenous people to work as service providers? 6. What are some of the significant gaps between non-indigenous people? Discuss any three.

Personal values and attitudes on disability

Consider personal values and attitudes regarding disability and explain their potential impact when working in disability contexts.

Normal breathing rates.

Normal breathing rates. How would you recognize if an adult, child, or infant is unconscious and not breathing normally?

Apply current theory of pharmacokinetics

Apply current theory of pharmacokinetics, pharmacology and pharmacodynamics to specific disease/patient conditions.

Verbally abusive client

Describe a time when a client was rude or verbally abusive to you. How did you react?

  • What skills were necessary to maintain a professional, caring, therapeutic relationship?
  • How did you best communicate with this client?
  • What did you learn from this experience?