Postgraduate - UnitNUR5844 - Health promotion and education

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Offered	Berwick Second semester 2013 (Flexible)
Coordinator(s)	Suzanne Willey

Synopsis

This unit identifies the World Health Organisations role in advocating and supporting the global health agenda of health for all. Primary health care as a philosophy and a model of health service provision are described. Health education and promotion as strategies for achieving health for all are examined. Nurses are encourages to develop health education and health promotion skills that can be utilised in our contexts of practice to promote population wellbeing.

Outcomes

On completion of the unit, students are expected to be able to:

Expand on concepts from previous studies of health and nursing to be able to undertake leadership roles in population health, health promotion and education
Identify, analyse and evaluate national and international frameworks for primary health care and health promotion initiatives with special references to the work of the World Health Organisation (WHO);
Identify major community health needs and issues of clinical relevance, with particular focus on vulnerable communities
Analyse various methods of population-based approaches to data collection
Utilise national and international collaborative health practice models in designing population-based approaches to primary health care
Apply primary health care frameworks and health promotion principles such as equity, community engagement and patrnerships to undertake a health needs assessment

Assessment

Assignment: 70%
Seminar presentation or alternative written work: 30%

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Suzanne Willey

Co-requisites

3565 and 1250