Complex and Community Care
Overview
Students will use a strengths-based approach to explore how people live with complex chronic conditions and or life-limiting illnesses, across a range of health care settings and sectors. Students will examine how health literacy enables individuals achieve their goals for self-management; how effective care coordination within and across healthcare teams affects healthcare outcomes and transition of care and; how health promotion levels of prevention strategies prevent, delay or slow down disease progression. Students will be exposed to models of end of life and palliative care, as practiced in a range of environments, and the ethical, legal, spiritual and cultural issues that may arise.
Requisites
NUR20006 Managing Chronic Care
NUR20007 Pharmacology and Pathophysiology in Nursing
.Pre-requisite
NUR20007 Pharmacology and Pathophysiology in Nursing
AND
NUR20005 Acute Nursing Care
AND
NUR20006 Managing Chronic Care
Anti-requisite
NUR30006 Managing Complex Care
AND
NUR30001 End of Life Care
AND
NUR20004 Community as Partner
02-November-2025
02-November-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Apply knowledge of the underlying complex conditions, health literacy, determinants of health and health promotion strategies to promote self-management
- Analyse clinical data and research to utilise an evidence based framework to develop a plan of comprehensive, safe and effective nursing care to achieve identified health outcomes
- Demonstrate safe performance of clinical skills for a person with a complex presentation
- Discuss and demonstrate an ability to work in consultation with individuals/groups, significant others and the interdisciplinary health care team in clinical settings
- Identify relevant health policy that supports healthy communities and how health literacy can be supported through policy and the nursing profession
- Discuss the concepts of inclusive communities in relation to cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and peoples with diverse backgrounds
- Describe models of end of life and palliative care as practiced in Australia including critical analysis of ethical and legal issues and holistic care
Teaching methods
All applicable locations
| Activity Type | Activity | Total Hours | Number of Weeks | Hours Per Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Lecture | 12 | 8 weeks | 1.5 |
| On-campus | Class | 16 | 8 weeks | 2 |
| On-campus | Class | 8 | 4 weeks | 2 |
| Placement | Placement | 160 | 4 weeks | 40 |
| Specified Activities | Various | 24 | 12 weeks | 2 |
| Unspecified Activities | Independent Learning | 80 | 12 weeks | 6.67 |
| Total Hours: | 300 | Total Hours (per week): | 54.17 | |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Individual | 30% | 1,2,3,4 |
| Professional experience placement, Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT) | Individual | 30% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| Professional experience placement, 2 Competency Assessments | Individual | 20% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| Online Tests | Individual | 20% | 2,3,4 |
Hurdle
As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:
To pass this unit students must successfully complete Professional Experience Placement (PEP) and the two PEP competency assessments.
Content
- Models of chronic care for complex conditions
- Person-centred education strategies to achieve self-management
- Provision and coordination of care across healthcare settings
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Community nursing models and roles
- Epidemiological, demographic and statistical measures of community health
- Building healthy communities
- Cultural safety for inclusive partnerships with communities
- Person-centred model of palliative care
- Ethical and legal perspectives of quality of life in end of life care
- Nursing roles before and after a death
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.