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| NNI5120 | Context of Nurse Led Triage | ||
| SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY | |||
| Credit Points: 15 | |||
| Description: | |||
| This unit will provide students with underpinning knowledge required to work in healthcare call centres. Covered will be: the history of consultation and triage from a national and international perspective, the nature of the service, the context of practice from a local and national perspective. Legal and ethical issues including accountability, rationing, resource allocation, critical reflective practice, professional judgment and clinical decision making will be explored. Professional identity/clinical reasoning influences on decision making, together with issues of culture, age, ethnicity, and triage categories, referral and clinical discriminators will be addressed.
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 7/12/2011 VET: 7/12/2011