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303284 (v.2) CAS - Primary Health Practice 221


Area:

Centre for Aboriginal Studies

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

30.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Seminar:

1 x 30 Hours Quarterly

Prerequisite(s):

303264 (v.2) CAS - Primary Health Practice 211 or any previous version
AND
303280 (v.2) CAS - Community Health Care 216 or any previous version

Co Requisite(s):

303300 (v.2) CAS - Health Care Management 222
 

Syllabus:

Growth and development - ages and stages of infants and children (up to 10 years), assessment of an infant and child within an holistic indigenous framework. Nutritional needs - assessing and teaching families on how to meet the nutritional needs of their children. Breast feeding - advantages and promotion. Socialisation - principles of child rearing practices. Monitor and support families. Communicable diseases - common childhood communicable diseases, clinical picture, control of spreading and protection through immunisation. Health care plans - skills to link assessment with identifying health problems, actions used by the health worker to assist individuals and family, evaluation of care delivered. Indigenous healing practices - examination, use, safety and use of incorporation into care.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

90300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

1

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Not Online

Result Type:

Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y    
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

 
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