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.

  • Unit Title

    Dietetics Professional Skills
  • Unit Code

    NUT6102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms My LY

Description

This unit prepares the student for the practice of dietetics in terms of professional communication skills and knowledge. The pathways to effective verbal and written communication with clients and colleagues are practised and explored to enable students to become reflective practitioners with the insight and ability to assist behaviour and change. Current professional protocols for documenting dietetic records are explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed NUT5113, NUT5114 and NUT5115.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NUT5104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create individualised nutrition care plans for a diverse range of individuals.
  2. Apply interpersonal communication skills to build relationships and to support effective nutritional behaviour change.
  3. Apply a quality review process to develop an effective nutritional education program.
  4. Communicate evidence-based dietetic advice to a diverse range of individuals and groups.

Unit Content

  1. Nutrition care plan (NCP).
  2. Human resource management, communication and negotiation skills in dietetics.
  3. Educational theory, models of teaching/learning and learning resource design applicable to nutrition and dietetics.
  4. Sociology and human behaviour and behaviour-change theory.
  5. Counselling theory and practice.
  6. Communication theory relevant to nutrition and dietetic counselling.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Trimstr 211 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Trimstr 211 x 3 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be delivered using technology enhanced learning, integrating face-to-face and digital experiences. Students will be required to access digital learning materials to prepare for their in-class workshop and tutorial activities. The use of cases will enhance student problem-solving abilities, and role play activities allow students to demonstrate verbal and non-verbal communication skills. There is a strong focus on development of cross-cultural competence, dietary counselling and reflective practice abilities through learning activities and assessment. Students will be provided with the opportunity to interact with clients within a student lead clinic to develop communication skills and individualised care plans.

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
AssignmentCross Cultural Assignment20%
PresentationGroup Education Plan 30%
Performance ^Objective Structured Clinical Examination - Counselling50%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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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.

  • Unit Title

    Dietetics Professional Skills
  • Unit Code

    NUT6102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms My LY

Description

This unit prepares the student for the practice of dietetics in terms of professional communication skills and knowledge. The pathways to effective verbal and written communication with clients and colleagues are practised and explored to enable students to become reflective practitioners with the insight and ability to assist behaviour and change. Current professional protocols for documenting dietetic records are explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed NUT5113, NUT5114 and NUT5115.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NUT5104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create individualised nutrition care plans for a diverse range of individuals.
  2. Apply interpersonal communication skills to build relationships and to support effective nutritional behaviour change.
  3. Apply a quality review process to develop an effective nutritional education program.
  4. Communicate evidence-based dietetic advice to a diverse range of individuals and groups.

Unit Content

  1. Nutrition care plan (NCP).
  2. Human resource management, communication and negotiation skills in dietetics.
  3. Educational theory, models of teaching/learning and learning resource design applicable to nutrition and dietetics.
  4. Sociology and human behaviour and behaviour-change theory.
  5. Counselling theory and practice.
  6. Communication theory relevant to nutrition and dietetic counselling.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Trimstr 211 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Trimstr 211 x 3 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be delivered using technology enhanced learning, integrating face-to-face and digital experiences. Students will be required to access digital learning materials to prepare for their in-class workshop and tutorial activities. The use of cases will enhance student problem-solving abilities, and role play activities allow students to demonstrate verbal and non-verbal communication skills. There is a strong focus on development of cross-cultural competence, dietary counselling and reflective practice abilities through learning activities and assessment. Students will be provided with the opportunity to interact with clients within a student lead clinic to develop communication skills and individualised care plans.

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
AssignmentCross Cultural Assignment20%
PresentationGroup Education Plan 30%
Performance ^Objective Structured Clinical Examination - Counselling50%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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