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Unit of Study NURS2018 - Building Healthy Communities through Impactful Partnerships (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    Yes

  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains Work Integrated Learning (WIL) that requires students to meet mandatory fit to practice obligations prior to attending. Failure to comply by the fit to practice deadline will result in the cancellation of your WIL and you will not be permitted to continue in this unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/health/work-integrated-learning.

Unit description

Develops students’ abilities in using partnership techniques to work with individuals, groups, families and vulnerable populations to address healthcare and social inequalities to build healthy communities, promote and improve wellbeing. Students will consider the ways in which nurses can act as global citizens in their contribution to sustainable health care systems through the principles of impactful partnership. A three-week (120hrs) placement experience will be completed as part of this unit.

Unit content

  1. Partnership models of care and the principles of impactful partnerships
  2. Introduction to primary health care
  3. Health promotion/education
  4. Global, environmental, climate change, pandemic crises, epidemiology
  5. Nursing in rural and remote Australia
  6. Risk assessment and screening of vulnerable populations

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Dual Term1,4
Dual Term1,4
Gold Coast
Dual Term1,4
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Lismore
Dual Term1,4
Dual Term1,4

Learning outcomes

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:

describe partnership models of care for nursing with particular reference to working with vulnerable populations

appraise the impact primary health care principles have on health outcomes locally, nationally, and internationally

develop communication and cultural safety skills that contribute to impactful partnerships, particularly with vulnerable populations and those living in areas of rural and remote Australia

explore global health through digital modes of nursing practice

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