Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

303284 (v.3) 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.3) CAS - Primary Health Practice 211 or any previous version
AND
303280 (v.3) 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 a holistic Indigenous framework. Nutritional need: assessing and teaching families on how to meet the nutritional needs of their children. Breastfeeding: advantages and promotion. Socialisation: principles of child-rearing practices. Monitoring and support of families. Communicable diseases: common childhood communicable diseases, clinical picture, control of spreading and protectionthrough immunisation. Health care plans: skills to link assessment with identifying health problems; actions used by the health worker to assist individuals and family; and 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: 090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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