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Course description

This course introduces students to the role of first level practitioner in a speciality practice area - Rural Health - with the overll aim of developing the Australian National Nursing Competency Standards for Registered Nurses in students, in addition to students displaying UQ graduate attributes in their practice. The course aims to develop in graduates an awareness & understanding of rural health care issues, cultural values & diversity of delivery of care. Students should have an opporunity to apply & build upon the theoretical concepts learned in foundations of nursing practice in previous semesters & in their concurrent clinical practice course. The legal & ethical issues associated with providing care for people with rural health issues will be covered. Students will learn the prevalence & risk factors for a range of rural health issues identified by population based studies & will learn about strategies which may be implemented in a diversity of rural health settings.