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School: Nursing and Midwifery

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.

  • Unit Title

    Community Health Care in Nursing and Midwifery Practice

  • Unit Code

    NUM3511

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Kylie MCCULLOUGH

Description

This unit will enable students to develop knowledge and skills in this increasingly important area of nursing and midwifery practice. Primary Health Care theory, including health education, health promotion and behaviour-change models will be studied. Students will learn how to access and analyse epidemiological health data, in order to identify the health needs of communities and incorporate these into nursing and midwifery practice. The skills needed to plan health promotion activities in order to encourage good health and meet community health needs will be examined. An important aspect of this unit is the consideration of how good health can be encouraged within the role of nurses and midwives for individuals, families and communities and across all ages and cultures. The unit will have a wide geographical focus and will include local, national and international examples of Primary Health Care.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units NUM2409 or NSC2203 and NPU2404 or NPP2201 and NUM2410

Only students studying courses C33, Y61 or Y76 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NCS3102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate epidemiological data to determine community health needs and socio-ecological determinants of health.
  2. Plan theoretical Primary Health Care activities and strategies to meet identified community health needs.
  3. Apply the concepts of health promotion, education and disease prevention across the lifespan and within different cultures and populations.
  4. Critically appraise the relevance of Primary Health Care and inter-professional collaboration to the changing health needs of the Australian population.

Unit Content

  1. Public health care system / nurses and midwives role in the future of healthcare / policy / NSQHS.
  2. Empowerment - socio-ecological determinants of health / social justice, community development.
  3. Epidemiological data / community assessment.
  4. Health promotion / nursing and midwifery educational interventions and opportunities.
  5. Health assessment and screening / immunisations, sexual health.
  6. Inter-professional collaboration: community / primary care.
  7. Grant applications.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
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 through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Interactive learning activities (18 hours), tutorials (18 hours), online activities.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline quiz20%
EssayContemporary topic40%
AssignmentGrant application40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline quiz20%
EssayContemporary topic40%
AssignmentGrant application40%

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: Nursing and Midwifery

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.

  • Unit Title

    Community Health Care in Nursing and Midwifery Practice

  • Unit Code

    NUM3511

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Kylie MCCULLOUGH

Description

This unit will enable students to develop knowledge and skills in this increasingly important area of nursing and midwifery practice. Primary Health Care theory, including health education, health promotion and behaviour-change models will be studied. Students will learn how to access and analyse epidemiological health data, in order to identify the health needs of communities and incorporate these into nursing and midwifery practice. The skills needed to plan health promotion activities in order to encourage good health and meet community health needs will be examined. An important aspect of this unit is the consideration of how good health can be encouraged within the role of nurses and midwives for individuals, families and communities and across all ages and cultures. The unit will have a wide geographical focus and will include local, national and international examples of Primary Health Care.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units NUM2409 or NSC2203 and NPU2404 or NPP2201 and NUM2410

Only students studying courses C33, Y61 or Y76 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NCS3102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate epidemiological data to determine community health needs and socio-ecological determinants of health.
  2. Plan theoretical Primary Health Care activities and strategies to meet identified community health needs.
  3. Apply the concepts of health promotion, education and disease prevention across the lifespan and within different cultures and populations.
  4. Critically appraise the relevance of Primary Health Care and inter-professional collaboration to the changing health needs of the Australian population.

Unit Content

  1. Public health care system / nurses and midwives role in the future of healthcare / policy / NSQHS.
  2. Empowerment - socio-ecological determinants of health / social justice, community development.
  3. Epidemiological data / community assessment.
  4. Health promotion / nursing and midwifery educational interventions and opportunities.
  5. Health assessment and screening / immunisations, sexual health.
  6. Inter-professional collaboration: community / primary care.
  7. Grant applications.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
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 through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Interactive learning activities (18 hours), tutorials (18 hours), online activities.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline quiz20%
EssayContemporary topic40%
AssignmentGrant application40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline quiz20%
EssayContemporary topic40%
AssignmentGrant application40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Talbot, L., & Verrinder, G. (2017). Promoting health : the primary health care approach (Vol. 6th, pp. xiv, 460). Chatswood, N.S.W: Elsevier Australia. Retrieved from http://linker2.worldcat.org/?jHome=http%3A%2F%2Fezproxy.ecu.edu.au%2Flogin%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.elsevier-elibrary.com%2Fproduct%2Fpromoting-health15186010&linktype=best

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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