Course Coordinator:John Adie (jadie@usc.edu.au) School:School of Health - Paramedicine
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Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus, unless your program has specified a mandatory onsite requirement. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
The management of patients within Urgent Care clinics involves an understanding of factors that affect safety and quality in healthcare. The specialist skills and knowledge of managing triage, informed consent, and billing is integral to the provision of safe clinical practice in Urgent Care. To prepare you for your professional role you will develop knowledge in managing safety and quality in urgent care. You will critically appraise your clinical knowledge and practices and develop capabilities and competencies to triage, consent and billing.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Online – Structured online asynchronous learning materials with optional one-hour online consultation sessions. | 7hrs | Week 1 | 3 times |
700 Level (Specialised)
3 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Critically reflect on bio-ethical principles and standards underpinning legal and financial risk in Urgent Care. |
Creative and critical thinker Ethical |
| 2 | Evaluate the clinician's role in managing risk in Urgent Care. | Empowered |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Course coordinator will assess for Ahpra registration in medicine, nursing, or paramedicine with 2 years post graduate experience
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Limited Grading (PNP)
To support your learning, early formative feedback will be provided alongside the online learning materials. This will include quizzes and case-based scenarios that reflect the style and content of your summative assessment. These formative online activities offer you an opportunity to self-assess your academic progress and identify areas for improvement.
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| Online | 1 | Activity Participation | Individual | One individual online contribution - 600 to 800 words |
Week 1 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| Online | 2 | Case Study | Individual | Two cases studies, each approximately 600 to 800 words in length (total max 1600 to 1800 word) |
Week 3 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
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| Goal: | To describe and critique disciplinary knowledge |
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| Generic Skills: | Problem solving, Information literacy |
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A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
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Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
This course will be graded as Pass in a Limited Grade Course (PU) or Fail in a Limited Grade Course (UF) as per clause 5.1.1.3 and 5.1.1.4 of the Grades and Grade Point Average (GPA) - Academic Policy.
In a course eligible to use Limited Grades, all assessment items in that course are marked on a Pass/Fail basis and all assessment tasks are required to be passed for a student to successfully complete the course. Supplementary assessment is not available in courses using Limited Grades.
You must contact your Course Coordinator and provide the required documentation if you require an extension or alternate assessment.
Refer to the Assessment: Courses and Coursework Programs – Procedures.
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