Course Title: Confirm physical health status

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2016

Course Code: NURS5362C

Course Title: Confirm physical health status

School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4367 - Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance

Course Contact: Veemita Kaul

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4662

Course Contact Email: veemita.kaul@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 90

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

There are no prerequisites or corequisites for this unit of competency

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to obtain and interpret information about client health status and to check a client’s physical health. It requires a detailed knowledge of anatomy and physiology.
This unit applies to individuals working directly with clients and who assist in the provision of health care services. Some disciplines may be subject to state/territory regulatory determination regarding delegation and supervision.

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and
where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
This course includes clinical placement


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

HLTAAP002 Confirm physical health status

Element:

1. Obtain information about physical health status

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Obtain accurate information about physical health status through observation, questioning or review of documentation
1.2 Interpret information based on understanding of the structure and functioning of body systems
1.3 Use information to identify any actual or potential problems regarding health status
1.4 Take into account factors that may have impacted on an identified physical condition

Element:

2. Check physical health status

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Make checks of client health status prior to delivery of health intervention using knowledge of body systems
2.2 Clarify significance of physical health status in relation to a particular intervention in line with job role and organisation requirements
2.3 Clarify implications and significance of physical health status with appropriate people in the case of uncertainty or limits on own capability or authority

Element:

3. Identify variations from normal physical health status

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Identify variations from normal health status using standard methods and protocols
3.2 Identify potential factors responsible for significant variations from normal health status
3.3 Identify potential risk factors associated with variations from normal health status
3.4 Recognise and refer potentially serious issues in line with organisation requirements


Learning Outcomes


The critical learning for this course takes place in clinical placement within the health sector and within simulations in RMIT.


You will be instructed in skills through demonstration, modelling and roleplay.


Skills development is supported by lectures on theory and underpinning knowledge,
classroom discussions, group work, research and reflective practice.

On completion of this course, you should be able to demonstrate the below mentioned outcomes satisfactorily -

  1. Obtain information about physical health status 
  2. Check physical health status
  3. Identify variations from normal physical health status


Details of Learning Activities

           

 

Learning Activities

A combination of activities will support students learning in this course, such as:


- Face to face and or online lectures to cover theoretical and practical concepts for each topic in the course
- Students will learn to apply their skills and knowledge to work integrated learning (WIL), during simulations and classroom based learning
- Observations of performance in the clinical placement or simulated environment will be a valuable part of your learning experience
- Tutorial activities (individually and in teams) to discuss, debate, critique and consolidate your ideas and extend your understanding around key concepts within specific topics
- Online discussion and activities support you to collaborate with other students in your course and debate and debate and discuss ideas
- Self directed study time to enhance and strengthen your knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts
- To further facilitate learning, students are strongly encouraged to use a range of communication tools between themselves and their course instructor as well as between themselves and fellow students by using the online learning platform

 


Teaching Schedule

           

 

RMIT Week

Date

Topics

8

18/2

Introduction to body systems

9

25/02

Cells, Tissues and organs

10

3/03

Cardiovascular system and conditions

11

10/03

Respiratory system and conditions

12

17/03

Musculo-skeletal system and conditions

14

31/03

Endocrine system and conditions

15

7/04

Digestive system and conditions

16

14/04

Urinary system and conditions

17

21/04

Reproductive system and conditions

18

28/04

Integumentary system and conditions

19

5/05

Lymphatic system and conditions

20

12/05

Nervous system and conditions

21

19/05

Special senses and conditions

22

26/05

Immune system and conditions

23

2/06

Body regulations and conditions

24

9/06

case studies

25

16/06

case studies

 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

                   

Marieb, E. ( Ninth Edition) Essentials of human anatomy and physiology Benjamin Cummings: San Fransisco

 


References


Other Resources

RMIT Library

http://www1.rmit.edu.au/library


Overview of Assessment

Assessment tasks-

Assessment Task 1: Written assessment 1

This assessment task supports knowledge assessment

Assessment Task 2: Written assessment 2
This assessment task supports knowledge assessment

Assessment Task 3: Clinical placement
This assessment task supports learning outcomes 1, 2 & 3


You will be provided with an assessment overview for the course and a descriptor for each assessment task.
Feedback is provided on each assessment


Assessment Tasks

 

All class learning materials, notes and other key learning resources can be accessed via myRMIT at www.rmit.edu.au/learninghub.
A combination of activities will support student’s learning in this course, such as:
• Face-to-face &/or online lectures to cover theoretical and practical concepts for each topic in the course
• Students will learn to apply their skills and knowledge to work integrated learning (WIL) in the student & clinical practice environment, during simulations and classroom based learning
• Work experience &/or placements observation of performance in the workplace will be a valuable part of your learning experience
• Tutorial activities (individually and in teams) to discuss, debate, critique and consolidate your ideas and extend your understanding around key concepts within specific topics
• Utilise and develop critical research and cognitive skills to find credible sources of health information
• Self-directed study time (eg. readings or activities around theory) to enhance and strengthen your knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts
• To further facilitate learning students are strongly encouraged to use a range of communication tools between themselves and their course instructor as well as between themselves and fellow students by using the online learning platform

 

Formative Assessments:

Each topic on the learning hub (Blackboard) has a quiz related to it. It is strongly recommended that you attempt these and attend the tutorial classes before attempting the summative assessments. You will have unlimited attempt at these formative assessments.

Summative Assessments:

You will be required to complete 12 Online Quizzes on the following topics:

 

1.  Cells, tissues and organs

2.  Integumentary System

3.  Musculo-Skeletal System

4.  Nervous System

5.  Special Senses

6.  Endocrine system

7.  Cardiovascular  System

8.  Respiratory System

9.  Lymphatic & Immune Systems

10.Digestive System

11.Urinary System

12.Reproductive System 

 

·         All 12 quizzes need to be completed by 16/06/16

·         You are required to obtain a 100% mark for each of the quiz topics

·         You will be allowed three attempts for each quiz

·         Each attempt will contain different questions due to a random selection pool

·         You will have a maximum of 60 minutes per attempt

 The assessment tasks will include-

1. Online quizzes  Due on 16/06/16( Information given above)

2. Three clients to be confirmed for their physical health status at clinical placement

3. Workplace performance through evidence guide at clinical placement due after 3  working days of completion of the placement

 

The students will receive satisfactory/ not satisfactory result for each assessment task. The students can receive Competency achieved/ Not yet competent result for this competency.

 

The students are required to receive satisfactory result in each task to receive a competency achieved results for this competency

 


Assessment Matrix

Other Information

This course will be delivered in cluster with Recognise Healthy Body Systems( HWSS 6065C) but will be assessed independently.

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