Overview

Students will use a strengths-based approach to explore how people live with complex chronic conditions and or life-limiting illnesses, across a range of health care settings and sectors. Students will examine how health literacy enables individuals achieve their goals for self-management; how effective care coordination within and across healthcare teams affects healthcare outcomes and transition of care and; how health promotion levels of prevention strategies prevent, delay or slow down disease progression. Students will be exposed to models of end of life and palliative care, as practiced in a range of environments, and the ethical, legal, spiritual and cultural issues that may arise.

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025
Semester 2
Location
Wantirna
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Apply knowledge of the underlying complex conditions, health literacy, determinants of health and health promotion strategies to promote self-management
  • Analyse clinical data and research to utilise an evidence based framework to develop a plan of comprehensive, safe and effective nursing care to achieve identified health outcomes
  • Demonstrate safe performance of clinical skills for a person with a complex presentation
  • Discuss and demonstrate an ability to work in consultation with individuals/groups, significant others and the interdisciplinary health care team in clinical settings
  • Identify relevant health policy that supports healthy communities and how health literacy can be supported through policy and the nursing profession
  • Discuss the concepts of inclusive communities in relation to cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and peoples with diverse backgrounds
  • Describe models of end of life and palliative care as practiced in Australia including critical analysis of ethical and legal issues and holistic care

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online Contact (Phasing out)
Synchronous Lectures		2.00 1 week 2
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial		2.00 8 weeks 16
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Other		2.00 4 weeks 8
Placement
Placement		40.00 6 weeks 240
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Various		2.00 8 weeks 16
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		2.25 8 weeks 18
TOTAL300

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 30% 1,2,3,4 
Online TestsIndividual 20% 2,3,4 
Professional experience placement, 2 Competency AssessmentsIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
Professional experience placement, Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT)Individual 30% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
AssignmentIndividual 30% 1,2,3,4 
Online TestsIndividual 20% 2,3,4 
Professional experience placement, 2 Competency AssessmentsIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
Professional experience placement, Australian Nursing Standards Assessment Tool (ANSAT)Individual 30% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

  • Models of chronic care for complex conditions
  • Person-centred education strategies to achieve self-management
  • Provision and coordination of care across healthcare settings
  • Interprofessional collaboration
  • Community nursing models and roles
  • Epidemiological, demographic and statistical measures of community health
  • Building healthy communities
  • Cultural safety for inclusive partnerships with communities
  • Person-centred model of palliative care
  • Ethical and legal perspectives of quality of life in end of life care
  • Nursing roles before and after a death

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.