Overview

This unit will introduce students to the values that underpin strengths-based nursing where students will learn to use critical thinking, self-awareness, reflection, and mindfulness. These skills will assist students to develop resilience as a nurse and foster resilience in people in the students' care. The unit will also introduce students to health promotion and the role of the nurse in primary care and health promotion.

Requisites

Prerequisites

Admission into BA-NUR - Bachelor of Nursing

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Semester 1
Location
Wantirna
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Identify the values of the strengths-based nursing framework
  • Discuss and apply strategies that empower individuals to take an active role in health maintenance and self-care
  • Apply written and verbal communication techniques in a context-sensitive way to facilitate a collaborative partnership between the nurse, the patient, and the healthcare team
  • Describe and apply health promotion models to enhance the teaching and empowering of individuals to be active in health maintenance
  • Describe a contemporary health care issue in consideration of the determinants of health, health promotion and healthy communities
  • Identify and describe the role of the nurse in primary care and health promotion

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Activity Type Activity Total Hours Number of Weeks Hours Per Week
Online Lecture 24 12 weeks 2
On-campus Class 12 6 weeks 2
Specified Activities Various 24 12 weeks 2
Unspecified Activities Various 90 12 weeks 7.5
Total Hours: 150 Total Hours (per week): 13.5

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Assignment Individual  30%  1,2 
Essay Individual  40%  1,2,3,4,5,6 
Online Quiz Individual  30%  1,4,6

Content

  • Strengths-based nursing framework
  • Reflective practice, mindfulness, and resilience
  • Illness and wellness continuum and self-care
  • Written and verbal communication skills
  • Determinants of health and global health issues
  • Models of primary care and health promotion including the role of the nurse

  • Graduate Attributes:
  • Communication 2 - Communicating using different media (GA2)
  • Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy (GA5)

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.