Healthcare and Health Professionals
UndergraduateTAS-CXA1112024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 26 Feb 2024,
- 22 July 2024
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Healthcare and Health Professionals
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Analyse bioscientific, social and cultural factors that shape health, wellbeing and illness
- Analyse the major influences that shape health care and health professional practice in Australia
- Explain the structural and functional components of the Australian health care system and analyse challenges facing the healthcare industry
- Describe different health professional roles, identity and values that exist in the contemporary health care environment
- Demonstrate the attributes of effective communication, self-reflection and critical thinking for creating a professional identity, solving problems and developing reflexivity capabilities
- Module 1: Introduction to Health Professional Practice
- The nature of health professional practice
- Critical thinking and reflective practice
- Analysing information
- Person-centredness
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Module 2: Illness, Disability, Health and Wellbeing
- Concepts of illness and disability
- Concepts of health and wellbeing
- Module 3: Australian Healthcare System
- Understanding health systems
- The Australian healthcare system
- Health system challenges
- Quality and safety in healthcare
- Module 4: Health Professionals and My Allied Health Career
- Health professionals
- Regulation and registration
- My allied health career
This subject introduces healthcare, health professional values and behaviours, and develops the attributes of effective communication, self-reflection, and critical thinking necessary for creating an emerging professional identity, solving problems, and developing reflexivity capabilities. A social determinants of health framework is presented to develop an understanding of the health and wellbeing status of people and communities. You will develop skills in reflective practice and critical thinking as a basis for examining how health professionals promote accessible and responsive services, programs and supports to address health inequities and to increase social and economic participation. You will also examine the ways health professionals have unique and distinctive roles in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness, injury and other physical and mental impairments in accordance with the needs of their local communities. Critical thinking is used to analyse the ways health professionals use social determinants of health, and person and community centred approaches to care to support and advocate for individual and community health.
- Quizzes (15%)
- Digital Infographic and Group Presentation (35%)
- Case Activated Learning (50%)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Undergraduate Certificate in Allied Health
UndergraduateTAS-AHE-CTF
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