Undergraduate - UnitNEH4012 - Interprofessional practice in community and hospital settings

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. demonstrate an ability to review his/her own clinical experience and arrange suitable learning experiences to maintain learning needs as a result of the varying clinical opportunities while on placement
2. demonstrate progress in the development of clinical, professional and leadership capabilities as a beginning health care provider
3. describe legal frameworks and statutory and regulatory requirements of the professions that make up the health care team
4. identify their role in team structures and contribute to effective team functioning through knowledge of group dynamics and professional roles of all team members
5. apply an understanding of duty of care within a prevailing legal and ethical framework
6. participate in an integrated approach to service delivery that is focused on the needs of the patient
7. demonstrate an ability to respond to health emergencies, to assimilate information quickly and communicate it clearly and unambiguously to other members of the health care team
8. demonstrate an ability to provide advanced life support under supervision
9. demonstrate a culturally sensitive approach to the recognition and management of the reactions of patients and family to acute illness or injury
10. describe the operational setting for critical care units in hospitals, ambulance services and retrieval services and the role of paramedics and nurses in facilitating continuity of care.