HS5602 - Rural and Remote Paramedic Primary Health Care

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
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 24-Mar-2011
Coordinator:	Professor Dennis Pashen
Lecturer:	jc142642.
Contact hours:	90 hours - Online course modules
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.