School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Interprofessional Practice in Health Care
  • Unit Code

    NUM3505
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Laura HYNES

Description

This unit will explore contemporary issues in nursing, midwifery and healthcare within Australia and globally, within the context of interprofessional practice. National and international issues in health will be explored from the perspective of interprofessional practice, as well as the way in which these issues impact on health and wellbeing. The unit will offer an introduction into the care of self through reflective practice and concepts of resilience.

Prerequisite Rule

Only students studying the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) or Bachelor of Science (Nursing)/Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

NUR3606, NCS3201

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically reflect on the role and function of the interprofessional team in different healthcare contexts.
  2. Critique emerging technologies and their application in health care within the context of the interprofessional team.
  3. Identify strategies for health and wellbeing of self and others in relation to capability to practice.
  4. Analyse the role and application of best evidence in contemporary interprofessional health care.
  5. Outline interprofessional and collaborative approaches to crisis management strategies within health care.

Unit Content

  1. The incidence, precursors and management of aggression and violence in the workplace.
  2. The role of the interprofessional team in health care including communities in crisis.
  3. The role of health informatics and telehealth in contemporary health care.
  4. Translation of evidence to interprofessional practice.
  5. National health priority areas.
  6. Global trends in the interprofessional management of health conditions.
  7. Guiding reports such as the Sustainable Health Review, Aged Care Commission Report.
  8. The role of reflective practice in maintaining health, wellbeing and building resilience in the care of the self and others.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered13 x 2 hour lecture
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyOnline short answer questions20%
PresentationContemporary topic40%
Literature ReviewHealth informatics40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyOnline short answer questions20%
PresentationContemporary topic40%
Literature ReviewHealth informatics40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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