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Launceston

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You must be employed in an appropriate clinical setting.

Introduction

This unit will address specialty nursing practices in a range of renal replacement technologies. The skills involved will include physiological and clinical aspects as they relate to the student's practice environment and patient population.

Summary 2021

Unit name Contemporary Renal Replacement Therapy
Unit code CNA573
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School College of Health and Medicine
School of Nursing
Discipline Nursing
Coordinator

Deborah Fortnum

Teaching staff

School of Nursing staff

Level Postgraduate
Available as student elective? No
Breadth Unit? No

Availability

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Requisites

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

online

Assessment

Practice Profile (2500 words) 50%, Essay (2000 words) 50%

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Textbooks

Required

Required Daugirdas, JT, Blake, PG & Ing, T (eds) 2014, Handbook of Dialysis 5th edn, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia.

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