306933 (v.1) Cross Cultural Perspectives of Health Care Practice 561

Area:

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

6.0

** 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. **

Individual Study:

2 x 3 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

In a health care practice context - Cultural theory, migrant policy, social justice. Colonisation, Aboriginal, migrant and refugee history, contemporary issues, community control. Theory of cultural security, cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural health assessment. Culture of poverty, cultural impact on health outcomes. Interdisciplinary roles in health care practice, preceptorship and advocacy.

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Field of Education:

060399 Nursing not elsewhere classified

Funding Cluster:

12 - Nursing

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 1				Y
2005	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