Unit Synopsis
This unit will equip you with the knowledge to apply and translate medical nutrition therapy into practical nutritional care to improve nutrition and dietetics outcomes for individuals. You will draw on foundational knowledge of nutritional science, social science, behavioural science, health, disease, food, food systems, and sustainability. Specifically, you will learn to apply the Nutrition Care Process to: (1) Assess relevant client data, (2) Make and prioritise appropriate nutritional diagnoses, (3) Develop a nutrition intervention that is meaningful for your client. (4) Create plans for monitoring and evaluation. You will also learn to consider the multi-factorial and interconnected determinants influencing your client's nutrition and health, and how to provide inter-professional relationship-focused care using effective team communication. This unit is designed to equip you with sufficient dietetics knowledge to provide generalist dietetics care, supported by clinical supervision, with a focus in regional, rural, or remote setting across the continuum of care.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite:
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 | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Case Study | 40% |
| 2. Group Discussion | 20% |
| 3. Report | 20% |
| 4. Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | 20% |
| 5. Portfolio | 0% |
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%).
Past Exams
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Engage in group clinical supervision through case study reviews to ensure safe practice.
- Exhibit professional dietetics knowledge to provide generalist services in regional, rural and remote settings across the continuum of care.
- Strategically identify, interpret and document relevant assessment data to inform care decisions.
- Use evidenced based practice and clinical reasoning to formulate and prioritise nutritional diagnoses that are meaningful to the client and for First Nations people are from the perspective of social determinants of health.
- Develop realistic goals and strategies in consultation with the client that consider the multifactorial and interconnected determinants influencing nutrition and health, monitoring, evaluating and adapting nutrition care plans as required.
- Selectively contribute dietetic expertise to an inter-professional care plan, navigating and valuing the roles and responsibilities of the healthcare team including First Nations partners, demonstrating effective team communication and relationship-focused care.
- Critically reflect on your current practice against the national competency standards and identify areas for ongoing professional development.
- Domain 1: Professional Practice
- Domain 2: Expert Practice
- Domain 3: Research Practice
- Domain 4: Collaborative Practice
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Case Study | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Group Discussion | • | ||||||
| 3 - Report | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 4 - Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | • | ||||||
| 5 - Portfolio | • | ||||||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | |||
| 4 - Research | • | ||||||
| 5 - Self-management | • | ||||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | |||||
| 7 - Leadership | • | ||||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | • | |||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |