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Health Innovation & Improvement Project (NURS90002)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
| Availability | Year Long - Dual-Delivery |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject involves a learning contract/project plan to be negotiated between the student and the subject coordinator and completion of a substantive piece of work based on the contract/plan. The focus of the work is an innovative project aimed at improving health outcomes. Students will use the project to develop their capacity to apply and develop the evidence for practice and extend knowledge in an area of their choice that supplements their learning but is not taught in other subjects. The proposed work should also align with the student’s course learning objectives and be linked with other subjects for the purpose of sequential development of knowledge.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject the student should be able to:
- Identify a novel health improvement goal and plan an innovative practice and/or service improvement project to achieve the goal
- Identify learning needs and develop a plan to address their own learning needs
- Use an evidence-based approach to explore a topic of enquiry
- Formulate outcome criteria to measure achievement of learning objectives and achievement of project goal
- Learn and work independently to achieve learning objectives and project health improvement goals
- Evaluate innovation and practice improvement project outcomes recommend future innovations and practice improvements.
Generic skills
- Effectively gather and share essential information
- Ability to critically evaluate new ideas, data, research findings, methodologies and theoretical frameworks
- Capacity to use technology and online resources to support learning and innovation
- Uses analytic and decision-making skills and system-level thinking to identify and address challenges
- Effective time management skills for planning and completing work to deadline
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| POPH90302 | Introduction to Health Services Research | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Learning contract and project plan
| Early in the teaching period | 10% |
Project Report
| Second half of the teaching period | 70% |
Learning contract and outcome assessment
| End of the teaching period | 20% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Year Long
Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 31 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024
Time commitment details
Self-directed learning: 150
What do these dates mean
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Additional delivery details
Contract learning
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
None
- Links to additional information
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024