Overview
Explores the concept of rural nursing and advances theoretical knowledge and practical skills to facilitate practice in rural hospital and community settings.
This paper provides a pathway for registered nurses specialising in rural nursing. The paper's content focuses on exploring the concept of rural nursing and emphasises the application of skills in the clinical setting.
About this paper
| Paper title | Rural Nursing |
|---|---|
| Subject | Nursing |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (Distance learning) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $2,984.25 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Restriction
- NURX 431
- Limited to
- MAdvNP, MHealSc, PGDipHealSc
- Eligibility
The applicant will:
- Have registration as a nurse from a 3-year programme or course, congruent with the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act 2003
- Hold a current Practising Certificate
- Contact
- nursingstudies.uoc@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- View more information on the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies' website
- Teaching staff
Convenor: Dr Virginia Maskill
- Paper Structure
This paper provides an opportunity for registered nurses working in rural locations to advance their theoretical knowledge and clinical skills to meet the unique challenges of delivering health care to individuals and their families/whānau in rural hospital and community settings.
- Teaching Arrangements
The Distance Learning offering of this paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching.
Six online study days.
- Textbooks
- There are no recommended textbooks for this paper.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will:
- Critique and synthesise theoretical frameworks in rural health and nursing practice
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of rural health care and health promotion philosophies and the contribution of these to advancing nursing practice
- Appraise research and information appropriate to the implementation of evidence-based practice with the aim of providing excellence in rural health care nursing
- Evaluate rural health care nursing models for practice
- Apply advanced individual/population/community assessment skills as relevant to own practice
- Apply principles of cultural safety and be reflexive to client, community/whānau/families and social issues in practice
- Demonstrate an understanding of effective collaboration, interdisciplinary communication and leadership in decision making and governance of service delivery to population group(s) in own practice
- Work within legal and ethical frameworks in the provision of rural health care nursing and in relation to national guidelines, policies and protocols