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2024 unit offering information will be available in November 2023

Unit description

Develops students’ abilities in using partnership techniques to work with individuals, groups, families and vulnerable populations to address healthcare and social inequalities to build healthy communities, promote and improve wellbeing. Students will consider the ways in which nurses can act as global citizens in their contribution to sustainable health care systems through the principles of impactful partnership. A three-week (120hrs) placement experience will be completed as part of this unit.

Unit content

  1. Partnership models of care and the principles of impactful partnerships
  2. Introduction to Primary Health Care
  3. Risk assessment and screening of vulnerable populations
  4. Health Promotion/Education
  5. Nursing in rural and remote Australia
  6. Global, environmental, climate change, pandemic crises, epidemiology

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:
1articulate an advanced and integrated understanding of partnership models of care for nursing with particular reference to working with vulnerable populations
2critically appraise the impact primary health care principles have on health outcomes locally, nationally, and internationally
3apply complex concepts of communication and cultural safety that contribute to impactful partnerships, particularly with vulnerable populations and those living in areas of rural and remote Australia
4critically reflect on digital modes of nursing practice in addressing global health needs

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. articulate an advanced and integrated understanding of partnership models of care for nursing with particular reference to working with vulnerable populations
  2. critically appraise the impact primary health care principles have on health outcomes locally, nationally, and internationally
  3. apply complex concepts of communication and cultural safety that contribute to impactful partnerships, particularly with vulnerable populations and those living in areas of rural and remote Australia
  4. critically reflect on digital modes of nursing practice in addressing global health needs

Teaching and assessment

Notice

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Fee information

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