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SNGP3012: Knowledge for Contemporary Nursing
2025 unit information
This unit of study explores nursing knowledge from a variety of perspectives and in doing so allows students to develop the knowledge and skills required for nursing in contemporary health care settings. Students will examine the important contribution of knowledge to evidence-based nursing practice and will develop the skills required to search for, retrieve and critically evaluate literature. Students will also develop and refine skills needed to demonstrate their own knowledge and understanding in academic work. Students will have the opportunity to explore the historical background and current debates relevant to nursing knowledge and practice. This will be achieved through the study of ideas and seminal literature from discrete periods in time including the Nightingale era, the scientific age and the technological period. Students will also critically analyse current issues affecting nurses and healthcare in Singapore including the ageing population, socio-political issues, technology and globalisation and the impact that these are having on nursing knowledge.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. search for, locate and retrieve literature relevant to nursing knowledge
- LO2. critique the literature on the origins of nursing knowledge at a beginning level
- LO3. demonstrate a comprehensive and critical understanding of what constitutes a discipline and the contribution of how theories and paradigms relate to the development and articulation of nursing knowledge
- LO4. articulate the ways in which nursing knowledge and practice(s) have evolved and been described by key authors and theorists
- LO5. demonstrate in-depth knowledge of socio-cultural, historical, technological, economic and political processes that impact on nursing knowledge
- LO6. identify and critically discuss current issues faced by nurses in Singapore including the ageing population, technology and globalisation and the impact of these on nursing knowledge.
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Semester 2 2025
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