Course overview
This course will provide students with a beginning understanding of the roles and responsibilities of Health Professionals within the Australian Health system. Introduction to the Australian health system including regulation and standards; self awareness; principles of WHS; international perspectives in health care; Ottowa charter, World Health Organisation (WHO) categories of impairment, activity and participation, related to social complexities of health and the consumers position and perspective in health care; the roles and responsibilities of professions in health care; professionalism; ethical integrity; academic and professional writing, working and communicating within teams, critical thinking and decision making in the health setting; cultural perspectives including Aboriginal Australians.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the range of services in the Australian health system.
- Identify characteristics of well-being in self and others
- Describe the consumers' position from different cultural and social perspectives including Aboriginal Australians.
- Discuss the roles, responsibilities and attributes required of people working in the health professions.
- Communicate effectively as a beginning professional in written, oral and group communication.
- Identify attributes required to build effective relationships within a team of health professionals.
- Describe basic principles of critical thinking required by health care workers for decision making.
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