School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Health Sciences Professional Practices
  • Unit Code

    HST3502
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Anne Maree TRENT

Description

This is a capstone unit to prepare final-year students to gain entry into a health science professional position. It prepares students to apply for positions in a range of working environments including rural settings; to participate in employment interviews; and to practice professional conduct to enhance employability. Students will be required to undertake 75 hours of practicum within a workplace that is applicable to the major fields of study offered in the Bachelor of Health Science course. Students are supported to apply their skills and core public health competencies in a professional placement opportunity.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will undertake a work placement. Placement requirements are negotiated with their host agency, and hours may be outside of the standard teaching period.

Prerequisite Rule

Student must have completed 240 credit points of study prior to attempting this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss generic and professional work capabilities to enable future employment opportunities.
  2. Use a range of oral, written and interpersonal communication skills to effectively collaborate with people in diverse workplace environments.
  3. Use responsible, accountable and ethical behaviour in public health workplace environments.
  4. Critically reflect upon personal capabilities, decisions and workplace experiences to enhance ongoing professional practice.

Unit Content

  1. Career development - planning and goal setting.
  2. Health and safety management and risk assessment.
  3. Professional communication and interview skills.
  4. Regional and cross-cultural challenges.
  5. Management and leadership skills.
  6. Explore organisational structure - legal, ethical and cultural.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will complete learning activities and participate in interactive workshops to prepare for their practicum placement, focusing on professional conduct, risk management and professional communication. Workshops enable students to further refine their team-work and presentation skills and cultural competencies. Students will collate evidence of their capability development, practicum experiences and personal reflections in a professional portfolio, which is submitted and assessed upon completion of their practicum. Industry placements are negotiated in consultation with the student and placement agency, and can be undertaken in a diverse range of settings including metropolitan, regional or remote locations. Students undertaking an Occupational Safety and Health or Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety major are required to complete a placement in an Occupational Health and Safety workplace.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCareer readiness40%
PortfolioProfessional portfolio60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCareer readiness40%
PortfolioProfessional portfolio60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Health Sciences Professional Practices
  • Unit Code

    HST3502
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Anne Maree TRENT

Description

This is a capstone unit to prepare final-year students to gain entry into a health science professional position. It prepares students to apply for positions in a range of working environments including rural settings; to participate in employment interviews; and to practice professional conduct to enhance employability. Students will be required to undertake 75 hours of practicum within a workplace that is applicable to the major fields of study offered in the Bachelor of Health Science course. Students are supported to apply their skills and core public health competencies in a professional placement opportunity.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will undertake a work placement. Placement requirements are negotiated with their host agency, and hours may be outside of the standard teaching period.

Prerequisite Rule

Student must have completed 240 credit points of study prior to attempting this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss generic and professional work capabilities to enable future employment opportunities.
  2. Use a range of oral, written and interpersonal communication skills to effectively collaborate with people in diverse workplace environments.
  3. Use responsible, accountable and ethical behaviour in public health workplace environments.
  4. Critically reflect upon personal capabilities, decisions and workplace experiences to enhance ongoing professional practice.

Unit Content

  1. Career development - planning and goal setting.
  2. Health and safety management and risk assessment.
  3. Professional communication and interview skills.
  4. Regional and cross-cultural challenges.
  5. Management and leadership skills.
  6. Explore organisational structure - legal, ethical and cultural.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will complete learning activities and participate in interactive workshops to prepare for their practicum placement, focusing on professional conduct, risk management and professional communication. Workshops enable students to further refine their team-work and presentation skills and cultural competencies. Students will collate evidence of their capability development, practicum experiences and personal reflections in a professional portfolio, which is submitted and assessed upon completion of their practicum. Industry placements are negotiated in consultation with the student and placement agency, and can be undertaken in a diverse range of settings including metropolitan, regional or remote locations. Students undertaking an Occupational Safety and Health or Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety major are required to complete a placement in an Occupational Health and Safety workplace.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCareer readiness40%
PortfolioProfessional portfolio60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCareer readiness40%
PortfolioProfessional portfolio60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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