Unit Synopsis
This unit provides you with the foundation knowledge and skills that you will need to provide safe and effective patient care as a student health practitioner. You will be introduced to medico-legal and ethical responsibilities of a medical radiation practitioner. You will be able to integrate the physical, mental and psychosocial aspects of care to provide a holistic approach to interacting with and caring for patients. You will be able to apply infection control and manual handling techniques and conduct basic patient assessments. You will be introduced to common medical emergencies that may occur in the medical imaging clinical environment.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 1 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Enrollment in CG92 Bachelor of Medical Imaging course. Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Laboratory/Practical | 0% |
| 2. Online Test | 40% |
| 3. Examination | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 88.89% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 13.64% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Unit coordinator reflection
On campus students appeared to be unprepared for weekly lab sessions.
Stress the importance of completing prelab activities.
Students were encouraged to engage with the unit through a variety of activities and reminders.
Source: Informal student feedback
Labs assisted in students' consolidation of knowledge.
Maintain the lab activities and residential schools. Review the lab activities to ensure they remain relevant to current unit content.
Lab activities were maintained and well received.
Source: Unit coordinator reflection.
The combination of same day on-campus tutorials and lab activities encouraged high student engagement from on-campus students.
Where possible, continue to timetable on campus tutorials and lab activities on the same day.
In Progress
Source: Informal Student Feedback.
Students indicated the lecture structure of smaller recordings were beneficial for their learning.
Continue to provide lectures in this format.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Discuss the medicolegal aspects of practice of a diagnostic radiographer
- Apply best practices in infection control procedures and manual handling
- Employ communication strategies that are empathetic, effective and tailored to the patient’s circumstances
- Respond within your scope of practice to changes in a patient’s condition
- Discuss basic concepts of pharmacokinetics and drug administration.
This unit links at an introductory level to the following professional capabilities of the medical radiation practitioner as detailed by the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia:
Domain 1:
- Capability 5 Assess the patient's/client's capacity to receive care.
- Capability 7 Deliver patient/client care
- Capability 8 Apply knowledge of safe and effective use of medicines
Domain 2:
- Capability 1 Practice in an ethical and professional manner consistent with relevant legislation and regulatory requirements
- Capability 2 Provide each patient/client with dignity and care
Domain 3:
- Capability 1 Communicate clearly, sensitively and effectively with the patient/client and their family or carers
- Capability 2 Collaborate with other health practitioners
Domain 5:
- Capability 2 Protect and enhance patient/client safety
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Laboratory/Practical | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Online Test | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | ||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |