NURS11153 - Health and Behaviour

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Understanding that health and illness is a unique experience for each individual and integrally related to thoughts, feelings and actions is essential for any health professional. This unit provides the opportunity for the student to explain psychological, social and cultural foundations of health and illness and the role of emotion in health and illness. Students will critically examine factors influencing health and illness behaviours including developmental stage and cognitionPs, and develop strategies to facilitate changes in health behaviour.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2024

Attendance Requirements

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

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 Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online Quiz(zes) 50%
2. Written Assessment 50%

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%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2015 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 67.60% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 54.57% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

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.

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quiz time limit and open access times
Recommendation
to continue with the week long access window and the two hour time limit.
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In Progress
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Worksheets
Recommendation
keep the format as they provide a scaffolding activity for students for the essay.
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essay information- research examples that are specifically designed to the course
Recommendation
continue with ECHO presentations on linking dtat to literature and other helpful hints about putting the essay together.
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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the psychological, social and cultural foundations of health and illness and how these contribute to each person's unique experience.
  2. Critically examine the influence of factors such as developmental stage, cognition and emotion on health and illness behaviours.
  3. Develop strategies used in facilitating changes in health behaviour.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Online Quiz(zes) • •
2 - Written Assessment • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Communication • •
2 - Problem Solving • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
5 - Team Work •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • •
8 - Ethical practice •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Online Quiz(zes) • • • • • • •
2 - Written Assessment • • • • • • • •