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Nursing (NURS) 327
Home Health Nursing

This version of NURS 327 closed. To current version.

Delivery mode: Individualized study online

Credits: 3 - Applied Studies

Prerequisite: This course is normally open only to baccalaureate nursing students.

Precluded course: NURS 327 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for NURS 493.

Centre: Centre for Nursing and Health Studies

NURS 327 has a Challenge for Credit option.

Overview

NURS 327: Home Health Nursing addresses complex health needs within home settings. Concepts and principles of home and community-based care are discussed. Specific trends, issues, and needs of clients and families living with HIV/AIDS in home settings are addressed throughout the course. Students learn how, in partnership with individual clients and their caregivers, to utilize the nursing process to provide primary, secondary, or tertiary level client-centred care in a home setting.

Objectives

NURS 327: Home Health Nursing is designed to provide students with an opportunity to:

  • Develop an understanding of the major concepts, competencies and skills of home health nursing.
  • Observe the implementation of home health nursing concepts, competencies and skills in a home health agency in your community.
  • Develop an awareness of the home health concerns of a variety of clients.
  • Consider issues relevant to home health nursing.
  • Understand how home health concerns of persons living with HIV/AIDS are addressed through home health nursing

Outline

Unit 1: Home Health Nursing: Concepts and Principles

Unit 2: A Model for Home Health Nursing Care: Persons Living with HIV and Persons Living with AIDS

Unit 3: The Nursing Process in Home Health Nursing Care

Unit 4: Home Health Nursing Competencies and Skills

Unit 5: Home Health Nursing with Selected Clients

Unit 6: Issues in Home Health Nursing

Evaluation

To receive credit for NURS 327, you must complete all of the required assignments and achieve a composite grade of at least “C-” (60 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

Written Assignment 1 Written Assignment 2 Total
65% 35% 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Ungvarski, P. J., & Flaskerud, J. H. (1999). HIV/AIDS:
A guide to primary care management
(4th ed.). Toronto: Saunders.

Rice, R. (2000). Home care nursing practice: Concepts and application (3rd ed.). Toronto: Mosby.

Other materials

The course materials include a student manual, a study guide, a reading file, and an assignment manual.