This course introduces students to safe patient care as an allied health professional. On completion of this course students should be able to identify methods to integrate a holistic approach to patient care (physical, mental and social) with technically correct and safe practice in the allied health context and be able to select an appropriate response to common medical emergencies. Students should also be able to describe preventative strategies and processes specific to manual handling and safe movement of simulated clients, apply basic infection control techniques and describe strategies to prevent infection in varied health care settings. Students should be able to conduct basic patient assessments, histories and interviews. Students should be able to outline various methods of drug administration and discuss the various tasks associated with preparing for and assisting in interventional procedures. Participation in the block clinical laboratory sessions is compulsory for internal students and participation in the residential school is compulsory for Distance Education (Flex) students.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 1 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Online Quiz(zes) | 10% |
2. Practical Assessment | 0% |
3. Written Assessment | 30% |
4. Examination | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 53.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 23.08% response rate.
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | • | • | ||
2 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||
3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | |||
4 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | |||
3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | |||||
4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
5 - Team Work | • | • | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • | |||
8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
2 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | ||||||
3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | |||||||
4 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
1 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | • |