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

    Community Placement and Evaluation
  • Unit Code

    NUT6107
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Gemma JENKINS

Description

In this unit students participate in six weeks of full-time, supervised work placement in a community nutrition organisation. The supervisory and assessment requirements are defined by the Australian Dietetics Council.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed NUT6103, NUT6104, NUT6105 and NUT6106.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NUT5108

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Advocate for nutrition issues within the community and public health domain.
  2. Demonstrate an organised, reflective, professional, collaborative and ethical approach to working within the community domain.
  3. Develop justifiable recommendations for community and public health nutrition practice.
  4. Critically evaluate the impact of community and public health nutrition interventions on individuals, groups and/or communities.
  5. Create relevant project resources.
  6. Apply nutrition management principles in the community setting.
  7. Negotiate work goals with supervisors and colleagues for achievement of project outcomes.
  8. Demonstrate the application of evidence-based practice within the community and public health nutrition domain.

Unit Content

  1. Application of community and public health principles to populations to achieve nutrition-related and dietetics-related outcomes.
  2. Government and non-government documents/policies relevant to nutrition in the community.
  3. Management, communication and negotiation skills.
  4. Documentation styles and requirements of the workplace.
  5. Professional work skills within a diverse range of settings.
  6. Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) documents: National Competency Standards for Dietitians in Australia 2015; DAA Statement of Ethical Practice; DAA Code of Professional Conduct.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 120 x 7 hour practical classNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Students will undertake, and be assessed on, authentic activities through engagement with industry and community partners.

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit includes a six week, full-time community and public health nutrition placement within a non-government or government agency in the community. The placement provides students with the opportunity to apply the theory and knowledge of evidence-based practice in real world situations. The placement aims to develop skills in community and public health nutrition, including intervention planning, implementation and evaluation. A Preceptor and other staff on-site support and guide student progress and liaise regularly with the ECU representative/CPHN domain leader.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Review ^Placement preparation
Portfolio ^Placement Portfolio

^ 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.

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.

  • Unit Title

    Community Placement and Evaluation
  • Unit Code

    NUT6107
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Gemma JENKINS

Description

In this unit students participate in six weeks of full-time, supervised work placement in a community nutrition organisation. The supervisory and assessment requirements are defined by the Australian Dietetics Council.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed NUT6103, NUT6104, NUT6105 and NUT6106.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NUT5108

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Advocate for nutrition issues within the community and public health domain.
  2. Demonstrate an organised, reflective, professional, collaborative and ethical approach to working within the community domain.
  3. Develop justifiable recommendations for community and public health nutrition practice.
  4. Critically evaluate the impact of community and public health nutrition interventions on individuals, groups and/or communities.
  5. Create relevant project resources.
  6. Apply nutrition management principles in the community setting.
  7. Negotiate work goals with supervisors and colleagues for achievement of project outcomes.
  8. Demonstrate the application of evidence-based practice within the community and public health nutrition domain.

Unit Content

  1. Application of community and public health principles to populations to achieve nutrition-related and dietetics-related outcomes.
  2. Government and non-government documents/policies relevant to nutrition in the community.
  3. Management, communication and negotiation skills.
  4. Documentation styles and requirements of the workplace.
  5. Professional work skills within a diverse range of settings.
  6. Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) documents: National Competency Standards for Dietitians in Australia 2015; DAA Statement of Ethical Practice; DAA Code of Professional Conduct.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 120 x 7 hour practical classNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Students will undertake, and be assessed on, authentic activities through engagement with industry and community partners.

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit includes a six week, full-time community and public health nutrition placement within a non-government or government agency in the community. The placement provides students with the opportunity to apply the theory and knowledge of evidence-based practice in real world situations. The placement aims to develop skills in community and public health nutrition, including intervention planning, implementation and evaluation. A Preceptor and other staff on-site support and guide student progress and liaise regularly with the ECU representative/CPHN domain leader.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Review ^Placement preparation
Portfolio ^Placement Portfolio

^ 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.

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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