Year
2021
Units
4.5
Contact
12 x 3-hour tutorials per semester
12 x 8-hour independent studies per semester
Prerequisites
Admission into BNGU-Bachelor of Nursing (Preregistration)
Enrolment not permitted
NURS1024 has been successfully completed
Assessment
Assignments
Topic description

This topic introduces students to a variety of psychological and sociological theories that influence health care and health care provision across the lifespan.

Educational aims

This topic aims to develop in students a beginning understanding of psychological, sociological and lifespan factors that influence a range of health issues and contexts and to explore theories that may help explain the ways in which health care is provided differently to different people.

Expected learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

  1. Determine psychological, sociological and lifespan factors that influence a person’s experience of health issues and contexts
  2. Distinguish ways in which age, gender, class, race, ethnicity, spirituality and indigeneity influence access to health care
  3. Critically analyse psychological and sociological theories to inform evidence-based nursing care
  4. Examine how these theories assist people to make sense of their own beliefs and values