NURS807 – Advanced Diabetes Nursing Practice
Module code
NURS807
Module title
Advanced Diabetes Nursing Practice
Prescription
This module is designed to enable Registered Nurses to advance their knowledge and skills in diabetes nursing practice. The module fosters an approach to learning that supports critical inquiry and clinical reasoning in the specialty practice of diabetes nursing in partnership with people and their whnau, families and communities. Students will explore issues in the clinical management of diabetes using theoretical and evidence-based perspectives, and develop specialty nursing care strategies to meet the challenges within the New Zealand health care environment.
Programmes
- HL0502
- HL7000
- HS1102
- HS1103
- NU0010
- NU0015
NZQA Level
Level 8
NZQA Credits
30
Delivery method
- Web-Supported
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 300
Resources required
- Learning Outcomes
- 1. Explore epidemiological and social determinants of health and illness which contribute to diabetes.
2. Critically evaluate frameworks and models for diabetes care management.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in advanced assessment, planning and evaluation of care within the context of therapeutic care delivery.
4. Articulate in-depth knowledge of normal endocrine function, the pathology, and long term complications of diabetes.
5. Critically analyse the specialty knowledge that underpins needs of different population groups.
6. Critique and utilise research and approaches to provide evidence based care.
7. Lead and influence practice development and quality improvement to improve health outcomes.
8. Role models the implication of the Treaty of Waitangi and works in a manner that the clients perceive as culturally safe - Content
- - Diabetes risk factors and epidemiology
- Social determinants of diabetes
- Cultural safety and the Treaty of Waitangi
- Assessment frameworks for diabetes nursing practice
- Critical thinking and clinical reasoning; differential diagnoses
- Management of care including inter-professional referral
- Reflexivity and relational practice and collaborative teams
- Pathophysiology of long-term complications and acute complications
- Glycaemic control, tablet and insulin therapy
- Complexities of obesity in New Zealand
- Identification and treatment and prevention of diabetes emergencies
- Issues in diabetes for special populations: children, adolescents, pregnant women, mental health, older people.
- Pharmacology in diabetes care
- Educational, behavioural and psychosocial strategies to support diabetes self-management
- Research strategies and utilisation
- Evidence-based nursing and critical inquiry
- Clinical guidelines and practice standards
- Audit processes
- Quality practices and risk management
- Resource management
- Health care policy, trends and approaches in diabetes care - Teaching and Learning Strategy
- ??Teaching and learning methods will involve theoretical and online sessions including tutorials, workshops, group activities, discussion, independent learning, and assignments?
- Assessment Criteria
- Assessment 1: Online activities 10%
Assessment 2: Report 50%
Assessment 3: Case Analysis 40% - Learning and Teaching Resource
- An extended reading list will be supplied by the tutor at commencement of the module. This will be updated annually.
