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

    Professional Skills in Speech Pathology: Workplace Preparation
  • Unit Code

    SPE4109
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Elizabeth Marie ARMSTRONG

Description

This unit is designed to prepare students for the workplace. It will introduce students to hierarchical and administrative differences in work settings and in doing so facilitate the development of the ability to manage, evaluate, and promote different service delivery models. Ethical and medico- legal considerations will be taken into account. The unit will also use knowledge of work settings to introduce students to the concept of sustainability in the work place and the steps they can undertake to create a positive work environment.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SPE3107

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version K71, Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design a health promotion activity.
  2. Evaluate different models of service delivery.
  3. Identify factors that may contribute to sustainability in the workplace.
  4. Understand the clinical implications of ethical and medico- legal issues across a variety of clinical contexts.
  5. Use quality improvement principles as part of the above outcome.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical and medico- legal considerations in health practice.
  2. Health promotion principles.
  3. Implications of cultural and linguistic diversity for choice of service delivery models.
  4. Implications of workplace structures and practices.
  5. Models of service delivery.
  6. Quality improvement principles.
  7. Sustainability in the workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, e-learning and lectures.

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
ProjectQuality assurance or health promotion project70%
ParticipationBlackboard discussion of workplace sustainability issues30%

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

    Professional Skills in Speech Pathology: Workplace Preparation
  • Unit Code

    SPE4109
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Elizabeth Marie ARMSTRONG

Description

This unit is designed to prepare students for the workplace. It will introduce students to hierarchical and administrative differences in work settings and in doing so facilitate the development of the ability to manage, evaluate, and promote different service delivery models. Ethical and medico- legal considerations will be taken into account. The unit will also use knowledge of work settings to introduce students to the concept of sustainability in the work place and the steps they can undertake to create a positive work environment.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SPE3107

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version K71, Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design a health promotion activity.
  2. Evaluate different models of service delivery.
  3. Identify factors that may contribute to sustainability in the workplace.
  4. Understand the clinical implications of ethical and medico- legal issues across a variety of clinical contexts.
  5. Use quality improvement principles as part of the above outcome.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical and medico- legal considerations in health practice.
  2. Health promotion principles.
  3. Implications of cultural and linguistic diversity for choice of service delivery models.
  4. Implications of workplace structures and practices.
  5. Models of service delivery.
  6. Quality improvement principles.
  7. Sustainability in the workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, e-learning and lectures.

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
ProjectQuality assurance or health promotion project70%
ParticipationBlackboard discussion of workplace sustainability issues30%

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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