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Unit of Study CMM10471 - Nursing and Health Promotion (2014)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    NRS10462 Community Health Nursing

  • Anti-requisites

    HEA00293 Health Care Practices III

  • Enrolment information

    It is strongly recommended that you have completed the all Year 2 Nursing Units prior to enrolling in this unit.

Unit description

Provides students with skills in the development, implementation and evaluation of health promotion strategies for individuals, groups and communities. Students will critically appraise the concepts underpinning health promotion and will develop a health promotion project which can be applied to a workplace or community. Collaborative learning is a key teaching approach for this unit.

Unit content

  • Health promotion in context
  • Continuum of health promotion approaches and settings
  • The program development and evaluation planning cycle
  • Strategies and education for health promotion and illness prevention
  • Healthy public policy/settings

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 2 Session 2
Gold Coast Session 2 N/A
Lismore Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 identify and critically review the basic principles underlying health promotion program development, implementation and evaluation within Australia
2 identify the key international events which have led to the development of the health promotion concept
3 critically appraise health promotion strategies in the development of your own health promotion activity
4 articulate and defend a holistic view related to the health needs of a specific community.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. identify and critically review the basic principles underlying health promotion program development, implementation and evaluation within Australia
    • GA1:
  2. identify the key international events which have led to the development of the health promotion concept
    • GA3:
  3. critically appraise health promotion strategies in the development of your own health promotion activity
    • GA4:
  4. articulate and defend a holistic view related to the health needs of a specific community.
    • GA7:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.