Unit Code: NEC801

Unit Name: Advanced Eye Care

Description: Advanced Eye Care aims to provide students with values, attitudes, knowledge and skills in eye care that will enable them to provide effective and comprehensive eye care services. This effectiveness will be evaluated with respect to the whole person, thus emphasizing not only academic outcomes, but also outcomes of patient centered, holistic and culturally sensitive eye care. Such an approach to eye care provision will likely more effectively reduce the burden of blindness in the Pacific region. The course is a 38 week course composing of four components. The components will be horizontally integrated throughout the year.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to : 1. Develop nurses’ ability to critically assess eye adnexa, anterior segment and posterior segment of the eye executing an appropriate plan as required. 2. Evaluate diabetes risk factors and diabetic retinopathy (DR), including grading DR, and developing DR nursing management plans. 3. Design clinic, quality and people management to support a Diabetic Retinopathy clinic to function competently. 4. Perform objective, subjective and comprehensive refraction that suits special refractive population needs and nurses provide personalized recommendations for eyeglasses. 5. Manage patient examinations by nurses in outpatients’, refraction and diabetes eye clinic. 6. Design projects, advocacy and needs assessment plan by nurses to influence community eye care, outreaches and screening programs. 7. Design behavior change communication tools and eye health nursing promotion programs that correlate to health beliefs of population.

Prerequisite: Minimum Entry Requirement.

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 120

Offered In: Semester 1,2