NSN430 Clinical Therapeutics

This unit focusses on clinical therapeutics which is integral to the Nurse Practitioner advanced scope of practice. This unit will enable you to develop and establish a framework of appropriate selection of medicines for individual consumers using pharmacology and clinical therapeutics knowledge, with a key focus on Quality Use of Medicine (QUM) for improved consumer health outcomes. Your clinical skills will be developed to enable you to prescribe, administer and evaluate the effects of medicines based on consumer health assessment and diagnosis in the role of Nurse Practitioner. Completion of this unit will provide a foundation consistent with the clinical, organisational, professional and legislative requirements, knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics and the principles of QUM, that must inform the nurse practitioner's decision making about clinical therapeutics. This unit will be consolidated in the second unit NSN432: QUM and Safe Prescribing.

Unit information

Unit code: NSN430
Faculty: Faculty of Health
School/Discipline: School of Nursing
Study area: Health
Credit points: 12

Dates and locations

Teaching period	Dates	Locations
Semester 2, 2025	21 July 2025 - 15 November 2025	Kelvin Grove (Online)

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Fees

Commonwealth supported place (CSP) student contribution amount: 2025: $1,164
Domestic fee-paying student fee: 2025: $3,744
International student fee (excluding study abroad students): 2025: $5,148

Guide to fees

Commonwealth supported place (CSP) student contribution amount

For Australian citizens, permanent visa holders and permanent humanitarian visa holders, and New Zealand citizens who study this unit:

as part of a QUT course and are eligible for a Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
as a cross-institutional student who has a Commonwealth supported place at their home university.

Domestic fee-paying student fee

For Australian citizens, permanent visa holders and permanent humanitarian visa holders, and New Zealand citizens, who study this unit:

as part of a QUT course and are not eligible for a Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
as a cross-institutional student who does not have a Commonwealth supported place at their home university
as a single-unit study student.

International student fee

For international students who study this unit:

as part of a QUT course
as a cross-institutional student.

Previous study requirements

Prerequisites: Admission to NS80 or NS90

Guide to previous study requirements

Prerequisites: To enrol in this unit, you must have completed these prerequisite units (or have credit, advanced standing or exemption for them), or be able to demonstrate that you have equivalent background knowledge.
Anti-requisites: You can’t enrol in this unit if you have completed any of these anti-requisite units.
Co-requisites: To enrol in this unit, you must have already completed these co-requisite units, or you must enrol in them at the same time.
Equivalents: You can’t enrol in this unit if you have completed any of these equivalent units.
Assumed knowledge: We assume that you have a minimum level of knowledge in certain areas before you start this unit.

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