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NURS2003: Contexts of Health and Disease
2024 unit information
This unit of study builds on the knowledge and understanding acquired by students in the first-year unit, NURS1003 Population Health. It critically examines contemporary theories and discourses about health, illness and care in Australia. These include biomedical and social models, sick-role theory and the consumer rights movement, primary health care and community partnership models, patient empowerment and self-management. Students will analyse, in depth, the relationships between social determinants of health – socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, colonisation, climate change and place of living – and patterns of health and illness across the lifespan. With this knowledge in mind, students will explore theories and practices of cultural competence, including cultural safety and respect and develop the cultural capabilities to provide care to people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds in Australia.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Nursing and Midwifery
| Code | NURS2003 |
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| Academic unit | Nursing and Midwifery |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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36 credit points of 1000 level units |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. inquire about, and reflect upon, the main theories, ideas and beliefs that have shaped, and continue to shape, contemporary discourses of health, illness and care, and the meaning of these for the provision of care, particularly nursing care.
- LO2. critically evaluate the relationship between the social, cultural, historical, political, environmental and global factors that determine health outcomes across the lifespan.
- LO3. identify and discuss features of nursing professional culture, clinical governance, clinical practice and service delivery, that impact the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of other cultural backgrounds.
- LO4. critically analyze theories of cultural competence, including cultural respect and safety and patient and community partnership approaches to providing safe and comprehensive care for socially and culturally diverse populations.
- LO5. search for, locate, use and critique the international literature to explore key concepts related to this unit of study.
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