NURS11168 - Determinants of Health and Primary Health Care Nursing

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit you will be introduced to primary health care as a philosophy, organising framework and way of working with people and communities. You will gain an understanding of the role of the primary health care nurse working in the community. You will examine the role of primary health care in the Australian health care system and be introduced to social determinants of health. The impact of social determinants and health literacy on health outcomes will be investigated. You will have the opportunity to explain the significance of immunisation for the community and your responsibility as a nursing student in relation to immunisation.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in CL91 Bachelor of Nursing

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).

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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).

Assessment Overview

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

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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%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 61.29% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 13.62% 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: SUTE data 2022, T2
Feedback
Maybe get onto the assignment instructions and tutorials earlier as they are very time consuming especially with other essay writing for other units
Recommendation
Unit coordinators will provide all assignment information in a timely manner to enable students sufficient time to plan and prepare.
Action Taken
The coordination team in T2 2023 organised and delivered Zoom sessions on weekly Zoom sessions (virtual classes) where students could drop in anytime between 11 am and 2 pm on Wednesdays and specific to each assessment item at least two weeks before the due date.
Source: SUTE data 2022, T2
Feedback
I hope that it can be ensured that marker's write more appropriate comments on a student's paper and what a student did right or wrong
Recommendation
The unit coordinators will work more closely with all markers, and ensure that the expert moderation process is followed. A range of support resources will be provided to all markers including a Zoom session outlining assessment requirements, expected student responses and marking criteria. Unit coordinators will moderate a range of each marker's papers, and will intervene early if any issues of concern noted.
Action Taken
Unit coordinators used the following strategies to ensure students received appropriate feedback comments on Assessments 1 and 2: 1) resources, including a short video on how to access a Feedback Studio via the unit Moodle site. 2) Grading Form to support markers' provisions of specific feedback on each marking criterion. 3) expert moderation procedure with the moderation of each marker's first few marked papers to facilitate overall consistency.
Source: SUTE data 2022, T2
Feedback
Trish and Ade are both wonderful. Made learning easy. Thoroughly enjoyed the unit.
Recommendation
Unit coordinators will continue to strive to provide students with the highest level of support and teaching quality.
Action Taken
All unit coordinators supported all students in achieving the unit learning outcomes.
Source: SUTE data T2 2023
Feedback
Harsh assignment marking with hard-to-follow feedback.
Recommendation
The unit coordination will endeavour to provide continuing support to the marking team to facilitate marking consistency and supportive feedback to students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE data T2 2023
Feedback
I found both lecturers [to be] helpful and showed empathy and understanding while struggling through my unit while being unwell.
Recommendation
Unit coordinators will continue recognising and responding to students who require support or other learning adjustments that promote positive learning outcomes.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE data T2 2023
Feedback
Tutorials [are] not as long each week.
Recommendation
We recognised that a two-hour Zoom session was too long and planned to reduce it to 45 minutes to one hour each week.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE data T2 2023
Feedback
The content of this unit was really fantastic. The lecturers were passionate and excellent. The information provided for how to address our assessments was very supportive.
Recommendation
The unit coordination team should continue providing specific Zoom sessions for all written assessments to guide students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Email
Feedback
I wanted to extend my abundant gratitude to you [unit coordinator], for your time and support for me in this subject. Your comments in the supplementary assessment have been extremely helpful and guiding, and I am truly grayeful (sic) it was you who market (sic) the assessment. I feel honoured to have experienced a class with you, your passion, knowledge and support has re-shaped my feelings and direction in this nursing path, and in life.
Recommendation
The teaching team will continue providing supportive learning environments to students to achieve the unit learning outcomes.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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