Course Coordinator:Apil Gurung (agurung@usc.edu.au) School:School of Health - Nursing
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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.
This course provides an opportunity to explore different models of primary and community health care used within the Australian health care system. Using an illustrative case, aligned to a National/State health priority area, you will design a business case to examine a number of concepts associated with implementing a primary health care/community initiative. These include social determinants of health, political and economic implications, a community analysis, multidisciplinary health care planning, health education and promotion.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Online – Online asynchronous learning and teaching materials and self-directed study. | 3hrs | Week 1 | 13 times |
500 Level (Advanced)
12 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 | Analyse the Australian health care system and the role of primary health care and community nursing within the system |
Knowledgeable Engaged |
| 2 | Analyse current national and state health priorities and initiatives and their broader health implications |
Engaged Sustainability-focussed |
| 3 | Develop a business case for a community health initiative underpinned with the primary healthcare philosophy and informed by the social determinants of health. |
Creative and critical thinker Sustainability-focussed |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Enrolled in Program SC514, SC546, GC011 or SC742
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Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Prior to submission of Task 1 feedback will be given by staff on the suggested initiative.
| 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 | Written Piece | Individual | 0% | 400 words |
Week 1 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 2 | Written Piece | Individual | 50% | 2500 words |
Week 4 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 3 | Report | Individual | 50% | 2500 words |
Week 8 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Online summary of Community or Primary Health Care initiative | ||||||||||
| Goal: | This formative assessment is to provide you with feedback on the applicability of a current primary health care initiative chosen for Task 2. |
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| Format: | The summary will be posted on the course discussion board and: • Identify a primary health care initiative • Discuss the rationale for choosing the initiative • Identify the Practitioners role in translating the initiative into everyday practice • Adhere to the APA 7th referencing style. |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Critique of a Community/Primary Healthcare intiative | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | You will critique a Community/ Primary Healthcare initiative and develop your knowledge on the role of the Practitioners in the team implementing the initiative. |
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| Format: | The essay will be 2500 words and adhere to the APA 7th referencing style. |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Business Case for a National/State or Local initiative | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | You will develop a Business Case that Practitioners would use to support a $250,000.00 startup funding application for a Community/Primary Healthcare initiative/ activity. |
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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.
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 |
| Recommended | Diana Guzys,Rhonda Brown,Elizabeth Halcomb,Dean Whitehead | 2021 | An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care | 3rd | Cambridge University Press |
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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
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment 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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