HS5602 - Rural and Remote Paramedic Primary Health Care
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Mount Isa Centre for Rural & Remote Health |
Available to student enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Rural and Remote Paramedic Practice
This subject consists of 3 modules. Diabetes- Epidemiology and burden of diabetes. National priority areas. Goals and targets. Measuring and assessing risk. Secondary prevention guidlines. Quality use of medicines. Critical appraisal of research and meta-analysis. General Practice diabetes clinics. Practice Diabetes database. Chronic and Complex Diseases- Population health strategies and their application in clinical settings. Measuring and collecting data in a rural health setting and the practice audit context. Monitoring complex care. Using clinical guidlines. Patients' rights. Coordination of care. Mental Illness- Common issues and controversies. The burden of mental illness. Prevention, indicators, dual diagnoses, comorbidities, workforce distribution and training, multi-disciplinary care, service integration, the role of consumer groups and special needs groups.
Learning Outcomes
- * Identify chronic disease and mental health strategies useful in primary health care * Idenify ways of managing and monitoring complex care * Design and undertake community health needs and practice audit * Critically appraise literature * Know of consumer and community rights and primary health care team advocacy roles.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
- The ability to manage future career and personal development;
- The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
- The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.
Availabilities | |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Dennis Pashen |
| Lecturer: | jc142642. |
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| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | assignments. |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Community Health Needs assessment of the students community (to a prescribed template) and critical analysis of results |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.