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Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1

Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

8

Level of learning

Advanced

Former School/College

Former School of Health and Human Sciences

Pre-requisites

HLT30002 - Clinics in Multimodal Intervention: Internal

Co-requisites

HLT83005 - Diagnostic Intake Clinic: Advanced and Interdisciplinary Practice (Internal)

Unit aim

Strengthens students' knowledge of accountability issues for health professional practice and expands discipline-specific and inter-professional clinical reasoning. 

Unit content

  • Autonomous practice: Nature, responsibilities implications and limitations.
  • Human rights principles and health.
  • Role and requirements of being an expert in regards to the legal system.
  • Role and requirements of being an expert in regards to policy development.
  • Ethics and ethical reasoning in health practice, research and business.
  • Accountability principles and procedures.
  • Clinical decision making and advanced clinical reasoning.
  • Meta-awareness skills.
  • Advanced inter-professional skills.

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.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 apply principles and explain implications of autonomous practice
2 critique the application of human rights principles to health professional practice
3 evaluate the expectations and responsibilities of being an expert, in regards to both policy development and the legal system
4 adapt accountability principles and procedures to complex clinical scenarios
5 critically discuss clinical decision making and clinical reasoning in novel and complex situations
6 evaluate clinical reasoning and meta-awareness skills in complex profession specific and interprofessional case studies
7 evaluate how clinical reasoning and ethical reasoning inform person-centred care

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

  1. apply principles and explain implications of autonomous practice
    • GA3:
  2. critique the application of human rights principles to health professional practice
    • GA1:
  3. evaluate the expectations and responsibilities of being an expert, in regards to both policy development and the legal system
    • GA3:
  4. adapt accountability principles and procedures to complex clinical scenarios
    • GA3:
  5. critically discuss clinical decision making and clinical reasoning in novel and complex situations
    • GA3:
  6. evaluate clinical reasoning and meta-awareness skills in complex profession specific and interprofessional case studies
    • GA2:
  7. evaluate how clinical reasoning and ethical reasoning inform person-centred care
    • GA3:

Prescribed texts

  • Freegard, H & Isted, L (eds), 2012, Ethical Practice for Health Professionals, 2nd edn, Cengage Learning Australia Pty Ltd, South Melbourne, Australia. ISBN: 9780170220439.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.