units
BND3101
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered, or view unit timetables.
Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences |
Organisational Unit | Department of Nutrition and Dietetics |
Offered | Clayton First semester 2014 (Day) |
Coordinator(s) | Ms Janeane Dart |
This unit uses chronic disease as the foundation and basis for dietetic students to develop and extend their core dietetic practice skills and build on what they have learnt in BND3XXX
Students are able to apply their skills within the academic setting in a case based learning approach and via experience in the healthcare setting which includes a 9 day individual case management placement. Students will also extend their foundation skills in evaluating evidence and applied research methods applying to nutrition and dietetic practice.
The key themes explored in this unit are: Theme 1: Personal Development and Professional Practice, Theme 3: Fundamentals of Health and Disease coupled with partial integration of content and application from Theme 4: Food from Science to Systems.
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
Students are required to complete an Individual Case Management placement experience to successfully fulfil the requirements for this unit. The placement is for a total of 9 days (3 days/week for 3 weeks in Weeks 10-12) at the same placement partner network the student has been orientated to in BND3001 in Weeks 1-6 of semester.
Assignments (35%)
Exam (3 hours) (35%)
Evidence Based Cases (1 formative, 2 summative) (30%)
This unit will run over Weeks 7-12 of semester with an average of 48 hours per week allocated including contact and private study hours. The majority of time allocated will be contact hours/placement hours with remaining time for private study.
A student must have passed a minimum of 96 credit points of units deemed satisfactory and relevant in content and depth by the Nutrition and Dietetic Department Selection Officer in conjunction with the Unit Convenors.
A student must successfully complete BND3001 in order to commence with BND3101.
BND3102
BND students only