HLTH1306 Health Practitioner Practice 2

2016

4.5

1 x 50-minute lecture weekly
1 x 2-hour tutorial weekly

1 HLTH1305 - Health Practitioner Practice 1
2 Admission into BHS-Bachelor of Health Sciences
2a Admission into BBSC-Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology)
2b Admission into BPSY-Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
2c Admission into BND-Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics
2d Admission into BHSMOT-Bachelor of Health Sciences, Master of Occupational Therapy
2e Admission into BMS-Bachelor of Medical Science
2f Admission into BHSMPT-Bachelor of Health Sciences, Master of Physiotherapy
2g Admission into BMSVMOPT-Bachelor of Medical Science (Vision Science), Master of Optometry
2h Admission into BCLSMD-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Doctor of Medicine
2i Admission into BITDHSH-Bachelor of Information Technology (Digital Health Systems) (Honours)
2j Admission into BCLSBMBS-Bachelor of Clinical Sciences/Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
2k Admission into BPARA-Bachelor of Paramedic Science
2l Admission into BEDMSSBHS-B Education (Middle & Secondary Schooling), B Health Sciences
2m Admission into BHSGDPEHP-B Health Sciences, Grad Dip in Environmental Health Practice
2n Admission into BEDSBHS-Bachelor of Education (Secondary), Bachelor of Health Sciences
2o Admission into BHN-Bachelor of Human Nutrition
2p Admission into BEXS-Bachelor of Exercise Science
2q Admission into BEXSMCEXP-Bachelor of Exercise Science, Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology
2r Admission into BLITTHL-Bachelor of Letters (Health)
Must Satisfy: ((1) or ((2 or 2a or 2b or 2c or 2d or 2e or 2f or 2g or 2h or 2i or 2j or 2k or 2l or 2m or 2n or 2o or 2p or 2q or 2r)))

HLTH1303 has been successfully completed

Assignment(s): Quizzes; Tutorial participation.

The topic explores the context of health care practice using a population focus. The topic examines the way in which practice is organised across a range of population groups or disease categories, eg. Indigenous, Mental, Aged, Rural health care and Sexual, Drug, Nutrition and Physical health. The focus is on providing students with a framework for on-going development of their own philosophy of professional practice through examining the lived experience of illness and practice.

This topic aims to:

• expose students to the tension between the patient's lived experience of illness and the boundaries of professional practice

• assist students to assimilate knowledge of the lived experience with critical analysis of professional practice as found in practice guideline

• extend student' knowledge of key social concepts that inform both the lived experience of illness, and health practice

• explore how the social concepts (eg., deinstitutionalisation) that underpin practice form the basis for understanding professional care of specific population groups. Eg Indigenous peoples

• provide students with knowledge and skills for critically analysing qualitative research accounts of illness and practice

• equip students with the skills and processes used in the production of evidence-based knowledge as found in systematic literature reviews.

On completion of this topic, students will be able to:

• Articulate a personal philosophy of care as it related the student's chosen profession

• Indentify the way in which their personal philosophy of care is shaped by the lived experience of illness, but also by the constraints on professional practice arising from the structure of the health care system

• Efficiently search for up-to-date health evidence in journals and on the web

• Recognise and evaluate the rigour of qualitative research accounts

• Write a clear summary/systematic literature review of a health care policy issue

• Extend group work skills developed in HLTH1305 Health Professional Practice 1 to respectful discussion and development of one's own ideas using the tutorial format.