| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Pathophysiology and Health Assessment for Advanced Cardiac
Practice |
| Unit ID: | HEACN6003 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060399 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
The purpose of this unit is to prepare the post-registration nurse for advanced nursing practice with an in-depth understanding of human pathophysiology of the major body systems, their alterations and health assessment. Building upon an existing knowledge of physiology this unit will provide clinicians with an opportunity to develop advanced level knowledge of pathophysiology and health assessment for application in the clinical setting. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | |  | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Critically examine and explain the pathological effects of selected disease processes at the cellular and systemic levels and their relationship to associated clinical manifestations |
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| K2. | Identify appropriate and inappropriate responses to therapy with regard to associated alterations in physiology |
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| K3. | Analyse and describe the characteristics of physiological alterations or disease within each physiological system and identify the aetiological factors and associated clinical manifestations |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Apply the clinical reasoning cycle to the use of pathophysiological principles as the basis for synthesising clinical data for undertaking a comprehensive and advanced level physical assessment |
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| S2. | Critically evaluate the effect of physiological compensatory mechanisms in response to major physiological alterations and the way in which they present in an advanced physical assessment |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Appraise and articulate the connections between evidence, clinical practice and outcomes for priority health areas for each of the physiological systems and their associated clinical manifestations |
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| A2. | Apply advanced clinical reasoning to the alterations in physiological systems and their associated clinical manifestations to inform clinical judgements |
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| A3. | Appraise and justify appropriate and inappropriate physiological responses to therapy |
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| Unit Content: |
•Altered cellular environments and concepts of health and disease across the lifespan
•Major systems approach to understanding advanced pathophysiology from a lifespan perspective
•Common clinical presentation through advanced assessment of alterations in pathophysiology
•Appropriate diagnostic studies for the identification of alterations in pathophysiology |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2, A3 | Application of advanced pathophysiological and health assessment principles | Case Scenario | 40-60% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2, A3 | Assessment of principles of advanced pathophysiological and health assessment knowledge for practice | Written Test (1) | 10-30% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2, A3 | Assessment of principles of advanced pathophysiological and health assessment knowledge for practice | Written Test (2) | 10-30% |
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