School of Nursing & Midwifery

Exciting new Topic: Dementia, Delirium and Depression

This topic will enable Nurses and Health Professionals to effectively assess and deal with clients suffering from Dementia, Delirium and Depression regardless of the setting.

There are important and devastating effects on mortality and morbidity arising from misdiagnosis and under-diagnosis of ‘the 3D’s’.

Learning through clinical experience

Hi - I'm Greg, a 3rd year student in the Bachelor of Nursing.

Having an opportunity to undertake clinical placements is one of the things I like best about studying. So far I've worked in a rehabilitation centre and a community health service.

Clinicals are a good initiation to nursing - it's very ‘hands on’. I've found the staff at the clinical venues to be very helpful - they encourage you to ask questions and won't let you do something you're not confident with. It's great to work with patients - from kids to the elderly. And it's great to see how RNs and other allied health professionals work together in creating the optimal care for patient wellbeing.

Learning through diversity

As a student of the School of Nursing & Midwifery at Flinders, you will work and study with people from many different countries, backgrounds and age groups.

Around 250 international students are enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. We have students from Norway, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Kenya. Student ages range from 17 to 55 and students include working parents, school leavers, and RNs and midwives returning to further their skills and qualifications.

Getting to know others from different backgrounds gives you the opportunity to expand your horizons, better understand diverse perspectives and learn how to create positive relationships with a range of people.

Learning through technology

Meet SimMan^TM, a newcomer to the School of Nursing & Midwifery at Flinders.

SimMan^TM is a life-like computer-controlled patient simulator that allows students to practise a wide range of clinical scenarios with no risk or inconvenience to actual patients. SimMan^TM talks, breathes, has a pulse and can be programmed to simulate a number of medical conditions and emergencies. The simulator allows students to improve their basic skills as well as practise responses to situations they might not easily find in clinical placements.

 

Improving clinical communication

Can you translate this?

T is 38, P 100, resps are 30, BP is 110 on 80 ... a specimen has been sent for MC&S ... she has IVABs 6-hourly ...she needs PERF.

What's the difference between a DON and a NUM?
Is it ok to call a patient ‘luv’?

Nursing students on clinical placement enter a new world with its own language, practices, hierarchy and documentation.

To assist students to improve their performance during clinical placements, the School has developed a new study aid, ‘Clinical communication’.

Students using the study aid can practise listening to a variety of patient handover sessions, reading charts, deciphering handwriting samples and medical abbreviations, reading body language, and properly addressing patients and health professionals.

Go to the study aid.

Learning through engagement with ideas

As a student of the School of Nursing & Midwifery, you are encouraged to actively engage with complex ideas, learn how to read and use the latest research, challenge your understanding through critical thinking and immerse yourself in the intellectual discipline of nursing or midwifery.

Nurses and midwives are increasingly expected to be able to think creatively and critically, interpret and analyse information, evaluate and solve problems and make justifiable decisions as individuals and as members of multidisciplinary teams. You will also be expected to be a life-long learner, with the skills and attributes required to continue your professional development and learning after graduation.