NS5101:03
Power in Practice
Townsville
Flexible delivery. First semester.
Available to students undertaking a postgraduate diploma or master of nursing sciences and to other postgraduate students with approval of the Head of School and Executive Dean of Faculty.
Staff: Mr J Morrissey.
This subject will introduce students to analysis of inequities in the distribution of power in the rural and remote setting. The effect of reduced access to the various levels of health service for the health care provider and client will be explored. Political and legal parameters affecting the scope of practice will be explored. Students need to have a sound knowledge of the political structures and processes in the context of their work, so that as professionals they can effect policy changes and mobilise local resources in the process. Studies undertaken in this subject will enable students to develop the skills necessary to make these changes.
Learning Objectives:
- identification of inequalities in the distribution of power in health care provision;
- explanation of the identified inequalities of terms of equity and social justice principles;
- critical analysis of the effects of power inequalities on health care providers and their clients;
- identification of the political obstacles to the improvement of existing health care practice;
- identification of the legal factors which circumscribe the practice of health care practitioners;
- analysis of the students’ own practice with reference to power relationships and how these relationships may be changed.
Assessment by assignment (30%); essay (45%); report (25%).
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