HNN772 - Healthcare in Low Resource/Complex Environments
Unit details
| Year: | 2023 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Kinga Pemo |
| Cohort rule: | Must be enrolled in one of the following courses: A590, H522, H568, H569, H575, H645, H665, H666, H667, H668, H669, H672, H675, H771, H777. |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 3 x 1 hour online seminars (recordings provided) |
Content
This unit addresses key issues confronting health professionals working in the humanitarian aid sector. The unit is designed to prepare students in managing challenges they are likely to face when working in areas of armed conflict, post war contexts, and natural disaster areas. In drawing on cutting edge and evidenced knowledge in health, nursing, midwifery, psychological and sociological sciences, the unit introduces the students to managing the challenges of working within low resource and complex (LRCE) environments, clinical knowledge relevant to such environments, identifying and managing health and safety risks, assessing and evaluating resource poor systems, setting up and managing emergency response plans, dealing with the challenges of working in a wide variety of humanitarian context, self-care in high stress contexts, and returning home. It is expected that upon completion of the unit students will have the basic competencies required to work within LRCE contexts.
This unit covers comprehensive perspectives of Roles of Nurses and Midwives working in LRCE based on the International Nurses Council (ICN) Framework of Disaster Nursing Competencies. The unit builds on ICN’s four areas of competencies related to prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery/rehabilitation to disasters.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Demonstrate understanding of the roles of nurses/midwives in the context of health and safety risks in resource poor and complex health systems in local, cultural, political, social and environmental contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Conduct an analysis of an emergency and develop and manage an appropriate response plan (including management, supervision and accountability structures, logistics, clinical education and capacity building) focusing on key issues encountered in humanitarian contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Identify and develop creative, practical, and safe solutions to challenges (including personal health and safety) when working in contexts with minimal resources and with strong interference in the form of ongoing violence (including victims of sexual violence), environmental, cultural and social factors impacting on individual and community health. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Address and manage the care of health professional themselves while they work in a complex and resource poor environments, for example managing stress, emotional health, grief, personal health, ethically difficult situations, culturally challenging physical environments, war crimes and other high stress contexts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Build their own capacity in terms of clinical, psychological, cultural and social preparation required to work as a health professional in LRCE complex health environments. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Apply strategies to build their own professional, psychological and social capacity to manage stressors associated with leaving LRCE and returning home taking into account transition theories. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 1:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Written assignment | 2000 words | 40% |
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| Assessment 2: Written assignment | 3000 words | 60% |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HNN772 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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