309103 (v.1) Community and Food Service Placement 582

Area:

School of Public Health

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

4.0

** 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. **

Clinical Practice:

1 x 10 Weeks Yearly

Co Requisite(s):

309102 (v.1) Clinical Placement 582
AND
309104 (v.1) Nutrition Seminar 582

Syllabus:

Community placements are undertaken in metropolitan or regional community health centres and other health care agencies. Activities include planning, implementation and evaluation of community nutrition projects. Conducting group education sessions. Participation in community consultations. Application of health promotion strategies. Working cooperatively as a member of a team - colleagues, community and other agencies. Preparation of culturally appropriate nutrition education resources. Advocacy of nutrition at the placement site and in the wider community. Food Service placements are undertaken in metropolitan or regional hospitals and are a structured, pre-planned program of activities and projects, work experience, information collection, investigations and report writing. Activities include evaluating food service systems, plant and equipment for large and small institutions. Menu planning and recipe standardisation to food service systems. Resource utilisation in a food service system and costing procedures. Applying existing food service policy, procedure and standards to evaluate food service systems. Computing skills in recipe analysis and costing procedures. Working effectively in the organization, recognising the role of food service personnel.

** 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:

69901 Nutrition and Dietetics

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Categorised
*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
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