Course Coordinator:Penelope Harrison (pharriso@usc.edu.au) School:School of Health - Nursing
Online |
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.
This third-year course consolidates and extends your understanding of Primary Health Care (PHC) as a cornerstone of equitable, sustainable, and culturally safe health systems. You will critically examine PHC across in an Australian and global context integrating health promotion, prevention, equity and sustainability to strengthen individual, community and population health outcomes. 2027 January Session commences week 1* Trimester 2 commences three weeks early* *for start dates please refer to your nursing calendar
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
| Online | |||
| Learning materials – Online asynchronous learning materials | 3hrs | Week 1 | 9 times |
| Online – Student support via Zoom sessions | 1hr | Week 1 | 9 times |
300 Level (Graduate)
12 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | Professional Standard Mapping * Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia | |
| 1 | Apply culturally responsive and place-based approaches to promote health equity and address social and cultural determinants of health |
Ethical Engaged Sustainability-focussed |
1.1, 1.3, 4.3, 6.1 |
| 2 | Critically evaluate community-based Primary Health Care interventions that strengthen health literacy, empowerment, and sustainability across diverse populations |
Knowledgeable Creative and critical thinker Sustainability-focussed |
1.1, 1.5, 2.5, 3.7 |
| 3 | Create an integrated health services which incudes multisectoral partnerships that support people’s needs across the lifespan |
Empowered Engaged |
1.1, 2.2, 2.8, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1 |
| 4 | Synthesize and justify academic, professional, and digital communication choices to produce ethical, scholarly, and professionally accountable communication appropriate to the role and responsibilities of a graduate nurse | Ethical |
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.2, 2.6, 3.1, 3.3, 7.2, 7.3 |
| CODE | COMPETENCY |
| Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia | |
| 1.1 | The RN accesses, analyses, and uses the best available evidence, that includes research findings for safe quality practice |
| 1.3 | The RN 1.3 respects all cultures and experiences, which includes responding to the role of family and community that underpin the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of other cultures |
| 1.4 | The RN complies with legislation, common law, policies, guidelines and other standards or requirements relevant to the context of practice when making decisions |
| 1.5 | The RN uses ethical frameworks when making decisions |
| 1.6 | The RN maintains accurate, comprehensive and timely documentation of assessments, planning, decision- making, actions and evaluations |
| 2.2 | The RN communicates effectively, and is respectful of a person’s dignity, culture, values, beliefs and rights |
| 2.5 | The RN advocates on behalf of people in a manner that respects the person’s autonomy and legal capacity |
| 2.6 | The RN uses delegation, supervision, coordination, consultation and referrals in professional relationships to achieve improved health outcomes |
| 2.8 | The RN participates in and/or leads collaborative practice |
| 3.1 | The RN considers and responds in a timely manner to the health and well being of self and others in relation to the capability for practice |
| 3.3 | The RN uses a lifelong learning approach for continuing professional development of self and others |
| 3.7 | The RN identifies and promotes the integral role of nursing practice and the profession in influencing better health outcomes for people |
| 4.1 | The RN conducts assessments that are holistic as well as culturally appropriate |
| 4.3 | The RN works in partnership to determine factors that affect, or potentially affect, the health and well being of people and populations to determine priorities for action and/or for referral |
| 5.1 | The RN uses assessment data and best available evidence to develop a plan |
| 6.1 | The RN provides comprehensive safe, quality practice to achieve agreed goals and outcomes that are responsive to the nursing needs of people |
| 7.2 | The RN revises the plan based on the evaluation |
| 7.3 | The RN determines, documents and communicates further priorities, goals and outcomes with the relevant persons |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
NUR287 or NUR205 or NUR213
Not applicable
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Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Completing the quiz in week 2 will provide feedback to support your learning and prepare you for later assessments in the course.
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Quiz/zes | Individual | 20% | 30 minutes |
Week 2 | Online Test (Quiz) |
| All | 2 | Written Piece | Individual | 40% | 2000 words |
Week 4 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 3 | Artefact - Creative, and Oral | Individual | 40% | 2-3 minute audiovideo narration |
Week 8 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Quiz: Review of Primary Health Care Principles | |||||||
| Goal: | The goal of this quiz is to revise and consolidate your prior knowledge of community and population health |
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| Product: | Quiz/zes | ||||||
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| Format: | In Week 2, you will complete an online quiz designed to review and extend your understanding of Primary Health Care principles. The quiz will include be based on multiple-choice questions. |
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| Generic Skills: | Problem solving |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Evaluation of a Primary Health Care program | |||||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | The goal of this task is to enhance your ability to critically evaluate Primary Health Care (PHC) programs and communicate your analysis through a supplied template. You will be asked to consider the six pillars of the Primary Health Care principles including health literacy, accessibility and intersectoral collaboration to critique an established PHC program. |
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| Product: | Written Piece | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Format: | Using guiding questions provided in the learning materials, you will critique the program, considering aspects such as health literacy, empowerment, sustainability, integration of services, and the role of nurses in community health. Your submission will follow a structured template and reference list as determined by the application of the APA7 referencing system. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Organisation, Information literacy |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Poster and Narration | |||||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | The goal of this task is for you to build on the critique completed in Task 2 by designing a culturally responsive, evidence-informed Community/Primary Healthcare intervention. Your initiative will address social and cultural determinants of health which promote equity and sustainability and demonstrate how nurses contribute/engage in intersectoral practices such as in building community partnerships. |
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| Product: | Artefact - Creative, and Oral | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Format: | You will design a primary health care/community health care initiative. You will draw on the skills developed from the critique you completed in Task 2 to build a program to address the needs of an identified group in Australian society. Your submission will include two components: 1. A one page poster (template provided) with reference list on a separate page. The poster should contain concise, evidence-informed content appropriate to a professional poster format. 2. A 2–3 minute narration (audio and video) highlighting key aspects of your proposed initiative. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation |
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| Programme Delivery Mode | Assessment Type | Title | Competency | Teaching Methods |
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| Registered nurse standards for practice - 1 June 2016 | ||||
| All delivery modes | Artefact - Creative, and Oral | Poster and Narration | 1.1 | Assessed |
| 1.3 | Assessed | |||
| 2.2 | Assessed | |||
| 2.7 | Assessed | |||
| 2.8 | Assessed | |||
| 3.3 | Assessed | |||
| 3.5 | Assessed | |||
| 4.1 | Assessed | |||
| 4.3 | Assessed | |||
| 6.1 | Assessed | |||
| Quiz/zes | Quiz: Review of Primary Health Care Principles | 1.1 | Assessed | |
| 1.3 | Assessed | |||
| 1.5 | Assessed | |||
| 2.2 | Assessed | |||
| 2.5 | Assessed | |||
| 2.8 | Assessed | |||
| 3.7 | Assessed | |||
| 4.1 | Assessed | |||
| 4.3 | Assessed | |||
| 5.1 | Assessed | |||
| 6.1 | Assessed | |||
| Written Piece | Evaluation of a Primary Health Care program | 1.1 | Assessed | |
| 1.3 | Assessed | |||
| 1.5 | Assessed | |||
| 2.2 | Assessed | |||
| 2.5 | Assessed | |||
| 2.7 | Assessed | |||
| 3.3 | Assessed | |||
| 3.5 | Assessed | |||
| 3.7 | Assessed | |||
| 6.1 | Assessed | |||
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.
You need regular access to the resource(s) below. Many texts are available as ebooks through the Library at no additional cost.
| Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
| Required | Jill Clendon,Ailsa Munns | 2022 | Community Health and Wellness: Principles of Primary Health Care 7E | 7th | Elsevier |
Must have access to a computer and internet as this is an online course.
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.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying: The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4% The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconduct.
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.
The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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