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Unit of Study HLT83006 - Accountability and Clinical Reasoning (2015)

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Unit description

Strengthens students' knowledge of accountability issues for health professional practice and expands discipline-specific and inter-professional clinical reasoning. The unit addresses issues such as ethics and law in health practice and business, advocacy, human rights and health, capacity building, ethical reasoning and research ethics. Advanced clinical reasoning for various client profiles and contexts are also explored.

Unit content

  • Autonomous practice: Nature, responsibilities and limitations.
  • Human rights principles, advocacy and health.
  • Role and requirements of an expert witness and implications for health professionals
  • Health professionals influencing policy development.
  • Ethics and law in health practice and business.
  • Accountability in service delivery settings and accountability systems external to the profession.
  • Capacity building initiatives and globalisation
  • Ethical reasoning and research ethics.
  • Clinical decision making around selection of intervention targets. 
  • Meta-awareness skills in relation to clinical reasoning in novel and complex situations.
  • Advanced clinical reasoning for different client profiles.
  • Inter-professional issues with respect to various scenarios.

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Not currently available in 2015

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 Apply principles and implications of autonomous practice
2 Discuss how health professional practice can be enhanced by adherence to human rights principles
3 Describe expectations of an expert witness and ways health professionals can influence policy development.\
4 Interpret accountability in service delivery settings and accountability systems external to the profession
5 Critically discuss clinical decision making around target selection for intervention and illustrate how meta-awareness skills can assist clinical reasoning in novel and complex situations
6 Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning in relation to inter-professional practice by solving complex case studies
7 Explain how clinical reasoning and accountability interrelate in person centred care

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

  1. Apply principles and implications of autonomous practice
    • GA1:
  2. Discuss how health professional practice can be enhanced by adherence to human rights principles
    • GA1:
  3. Describe expectations of an expert witness and ways health professionals can influence policy development.\
    • GA1:
  4. Interpret accountability in service delivery settings and accountability systems external to the profession
    • GA3:
  5. Critically discuss clinical decision making around target selection for intervention and illustrate how meta-awareness skills can assist clinical reasoning in novel and complex situations
    • GA2:
  6. Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning in relation to inter-professional practice by solving complex case studies
    • GA2:
  7. Explain how clinical reasoning and accountability interrelate in person centred care
    • GA2: