Ebook: NUM3511 Community Health Care in Nursing and Midwifery Practice

https://www.ecu.edu.au/handbook/unit?id=NUM3511&year=2022

School: Nursing and Midwifery
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Unit Title
Community Health Care in Nursing and Midwifery Practice
Unit Code
NUM3511
Year
2023
Enrolment Period
1
Version
1
Credit Points
15
Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Online
Unit Coordinator
Ms Natalie Josephine BORELLINI
Description
This unit will enable students to develop knowledge and skills in this increasingly important area of nursing and midwifery practice. Primary Health Care theory, including health education, health promotion and behaviour-change models will be studied. Students will learn how to access and analyse epidemiological health data, in order to identify the health needs of communities and incorporate these into nursing and midwifery practice. The skills needed to plan health promotion activities in order to encourage good health and meet community health needs will be examined. An important aspect of this unit is the consideration of how good health can be encouraged within the role of nurses and midwives for individuals, families and communities and across all ages and cultures. The unit will have a wide geographical focus and will include local, national and international examples of Primary Health Care.

Prerequisite Rule
Students must pass 3 units; NUM2409 or NSC2203 and NPU2404 or NPP2201 plus NUM2410

Only students studying courses C33, Y61 or Y76 can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule
Unit was previously coded NCS3102.

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:

Evaluate epidemiological data to determine community health needs and socio-ecological determinants of health.
Plan theoretical Primary Health Care activities and strategies to meet identified community health needs.
Apply the concepts of health promotion, education and disease prevention across the lifespan and within different cultures and populations.
Critically appraise the relevance of Primary Health Care and inter-professional collaboration to the changing health needs of the Australian population.
Unit Content
Public health care system / nurses’ and midwives’ role in the future of healthcare / policy / NSQHS.
Empowerment - socio-ecological determinants of health / social justice, community development.
Epidemiological data / community assessment.
Health promotion / nursing and midwifery educational interventions and opportunities.
Health assessment and screening / immunisations, sexual health.
Inter-professional collaboration: community / primary care.
Grant applications.