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NUTR29013 - Placement: Regional/Rural/Remote

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides you with an integrated professional placement experience in a regional, rural, and/or remote setting. You will be supported to complete a 10-week placement which, if possible, will be in your local region. During this placement, you will participate in inter-professional models of care and be exposed to the broad landscape of dietetics, working across multiple services, including, but not limited to, government, health and hospital services, private practice, non-government organisations, and/or residential aged care facilities. In particular, you will develop your generalist skills in individual case management, food systems and community health. This placement will help you gain a hands-on understanding of dietetic services across the continuum of care. In addition, you will gain an understanding of the healthcare challenges faced by regional, rural, and/or remote communities, including for First Nations peoples.

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:

NUTR29002 Individual Case Management
NUTR29012 Dietetic Practice and Communication

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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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2025

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2025

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 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. Professional Practice Placement 0%
2. 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.

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Communicate effectively with members within a regional, rural or remote community using strengths-based language, across two or more health care settings, to build trust, support behaviour change, and improve health and nutrition outcomes for individuals and the community.
  2. Adopt ethical principles to explore, evaluate and propose evidenced-based solutions to system-level challenges in food systems, valuing First Nations knowledges, and addressing both community and individual case management goals.
  3. Critically implement the nutrition care process using evidenced based practice, clinical reasoning and a socioecological systems-based approach, aligned with a generalist rural dietitian's role, providing individual, group and community services.
  4. Collaborate inclusively and equitably with persons receiving care within a regional, rural or remote community, to provide relationship-focused services navigating the complexities of health and social systems.
  5. Demonstrate professionalism across all areas of dietetics practice enabling competence to navigate possible health system challenges, including the delivery of culturally safe services.
  6. Critically appraise and initiate evidence and strengths-based approaches in First Nations health care, valuing First Nations ways of knowing, being and doing in professional nutrition and dietetic practice.
  7. Critically reflect on your current practice against the national competency standards and identify areas for ongoing professional development.

Learning outcomes of this unit are linked to the following domains of the 2021 Dietitians Australia (DA) National Competency Standards for Dietitians in Australia:

Domain 1: Professional Practice 

Domain 2: Expert Practice 

Domain 3: Research Practice

Domain 4: Collaborative Practice

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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2 - Portfolio • • • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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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 • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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