School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Understanding Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Unit Code

    NRB6100
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Barbara Jennifer SINGER

Description

This unit provides an overview of the core tenets of neurological rehabilitation and long term management of individuals with neurological conditions. Topics include: an overview of models of disability; inter-professional practice; measurement of rehabilitation outcomes; client centered practice; goal setting; and optimising self management and long term wellness for individuals living with neurological conditions.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate contemporary research to inform best practice in rehabilitation and long term management of people with neurological conditions.
  2. Apply knowledge of neurological rehabilitation to the assessment and clinical management of a range of neurological conditions.
  3. Critically evaluate rehabilitation programs and long term management plans for individuals with a neurological condition.

Unit Content

  1. Principles of rehabilitation of individuals with neurological conditions.
  2. Inter-professional practice and team dynamics.
  3. Supporting client-centered practice/self-management, including goal setting.
  4. Measuring outcomes of neurological rehabilitation.
  5. Optimal long-term management of neurological conditions.
  6. Challenges to delivery of best-practice rehabilitation and long-term management of individuals with neurological conditions.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery including e-lectures and webinars, reflection on set readings and interaction to discuss set questions and related readings in online forums.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice 120%
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice 220%
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice 320%
Case StudyClinical Case Study Reponse40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Understanding Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Unit Code

    NRB6100
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Barbara Jennifer SINGER

Description

This unit provides an overview of the core tenets of neurological rehabilitation and long term management of individuals with neurological conditions. Topics include: an overview of models of disability; inter-professional practice; measurement of rehabilitation outcomes; client centered practice; goal setting; and optimising self management and long term wellness for individuals living with neurological conditions.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate contemporary research to inform best practice in rehabilitation and long term management of people with neurological conditions.
  2. Apply knowledge of neurological rehabilitation to the assessment and clinical management of a range of neurological conditions.
  3. Critically evaluate rehabilitation programs and long term management plans for individuals with a neurological condition.

Unit Content

  1. Principles of rehabilitation of individuals with neurological conditions.
  2. Inter-professional practice and team dynamics.
  3. Supporting client-centered practice/self-management, including goal setting.
  4. Measuring outcomes of neurological rehabilitation.
  5. Optimal long-term management of neurological conditions.
  6. Challenges to delivery of best-practice rehabilitation and long-term management of individuals with neurological conditions.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery including e-lectures and webinars, reflection on set readings and interaction to discuss set questions and related readings in online forums.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice 120%
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice 220%
Reflective PracticeReflective Practice 320%
Case StudyClinical Case Study Reponse40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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