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 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:

090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

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
2006	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