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Unit description
Develops theoretical and practical skills for the assessment of functional capacity, and exercise programming and delivery appropriate for clients with chronic metabolic diseases such as overweight/obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus (impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, gestational, Type 1 and Type 2) and renal disease.
Unit content
- Metabolic disorders
- Exercise testing and monitoring
- Exercise delivery
- Multidisciplinary management
- Renal disease
- Renal disease
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | apply and adapt critical clinical thinking and clinical reasoning to provide timely identification of, and response(s) to, clinical safety risks for exercise for individuals with metabolic and renal conditions |
| 2 | critically analyse and integrate the knowledge of metabolic and renal disease into the design of appropriate client health and fitness assessments |
| 3 | autonomously design and deliver safe, effective and evidence-based clinical exercise interventions for individuals with metabolic and renal conditions |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- apply and adapt critical clinical thinking and clinical reasoning to provide timely identification of, and response(s) to, clinical safety risks for exercise for individuals with metabolic and renal conditions
- critically analyse and integrate the knowledge of metabolic and renal disease into the design of appropriate client health and fitness assessments
- autonomously design and deliver safe, effective and evidence-based clinical exercise interventions for individuals with metabolic and renal conditions
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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