Unit Synopsis
This unit is designed to develop and consolidate your practice in community and public health nutrition applying your knowledge at the local and population level. You will develop a range of strategies to influence change and reduce the burden of chronic disease. You will explore the efficacy of current interventions and strategies that are used to address nutrition-related issues. You will then translate and apply community and public health concepts into the development and management of nutrition intervention/promotion projects for an at-risk group in a regional/rural/remote community as a part of your full-time supervised placement (30 days). This experience will develop your research, problem-solving, business management and professional skills as you will work through the stages of project planning, implementation, and evaluation and then synthesise your findings into a final report. You will work in collaboration with key partners throughout the placement.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites:
As WIL units are completed sequentially rather than simultaneously, this unit can only be completed alone or together with other WIL units within CL88/CM61 including: NUTR29013 Placement: Regional/Rural/Remote NUTR29004 Placement: ICM Networking and Practice Modules NUTR29008 Placement: Nutrition Research in Practice
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 | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
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 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Case Study | 0% |
| 2. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
| 3. Portfolio | 0% |
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
Past Exams
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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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Communicate effectively with diverse audiences using strengths-based language across multiple modes to build trust, support behaviour change and improve health and nutrition outcomes for communities and populations.
- Apply ethical principles to interpret, design, conduct and disseminate outcomes from community and public health nutrition program evaluations to improve nutrition and dietetics outcomes.
- Critically implement the nutrition care process recognising the multifactorial and interconnected determinants of health and applying a socio-ecological approach to the development of public health strategies to improve nutrition and health outcomes.
- Collaborate inclusively and equitably with key partners to provide relationship-focused services navigating the complexities of health and social systems.
- Strategically demonstrate leadership, management, and advocacy using systems-based tools and risk management strategies, while practising safely, ethically, and in a culturally responsive manner.
- Critically appraise and initiate evidence and strengths-based approaches in First Nations health care, valuing First Nations ways of knowing, being and doing in a community and public health context.
- Critically reflect on your current practice against the national competency standards and identify areas for ongoing professional development.
- Domain 1: Professional Practice
- Domain 2: Expert Practice
- Domain 3: Research Practice
- Domain 4: Collaborative Practice
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Case Study | • | • | |||||
| 2 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | |||
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | ||||
| 4 - Research | • | • | |||||
| 5 - Self-management | • | ||||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | ||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | • | |||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |