The current and official versions of the course specifications are available on the web at https://www.usq.edu.au/course/specification/current.
Please consult the web for updates that may occur during the year.
This course provides a focus for quality health care provision for older people that builds and expands on prior knowledge and skills gained from undergraduate level nursing courses. The course will provide postgraduate nursing students with advanced concepts to enhance their clinical decisions and practices related to older people across a wide spectrum of clinical settings and the community. The course will also contribute to the ongoing development of nurses' qualities as leaders, especially as change agents in their respective health practice contexts that improve the care experience and quality of life of older people. Learning outcomes will address key concepts such as philosophies of care approach, professional nursing and aged care quality standards, healthy ageing and the older person, the ageing process, including the theories of ageing, contemporary practice and cultural challenges and issues, significant to local, national and international healthy aged care practices.
