Unit Outline

This unit introduces you to an interprofessional framework and foundational concepts related to joining a regulated profession and that are shared across allied health disciplines. Within the interprofessional framework, allied health students develop an understanding of the professional contexts in which they practice and the role and responsibilities of their own and other professions when providing integrated services. With a focus on developing the attributes of professionalism and becoming a safe and ethical allied health practitioner, the regulatory, ethical and legal frameworks underpinning professional practice are examined within the context of the ever-changing health environments. The unit introduces you to the scope of public health locally, nationally, and internationally. Taking a health-in-all-sectors approach, the unit explores the relationship between the social determinants of health and equity in order to differentiate approaches to addressing need via promotion, prevention and treatment. You will explore your own career planning with focus on how you will take responsibility for developing as an active and engaged lifelong learner who maintains critical thinking and self-reflective capabilities for client-centred, safe, quality and interprofessional collaborative practice, as well as continually developing as a resilient, confident, and autonomous practitioners.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1	Communicate and collaborate effectively in teams to achieve respectful partnerships across disciplines and assist future provision of client-centred, safe, and high-quality services.
2	Analyse health practice scenarios using principles of ethical, evidence-based practice, social determinants and a biopsychosocial approach in allied health professional practice.
3	Analyse professional capabilities using reflection to create a learning plan for allied health professional practice including principles of culturally responsive practice to respond to culturally diverse populations.
4	Differentiate between a range of definitions of health and understand public health, its principal components and its development within Australian and international contexts.
5	Identify the components and processes that ensure safe and quality services, including risk assessment and clinical governance frameworks.

Alterations as a result of student feedback

Based on the feedback from the previous cohort, each MyLO topics have been carefully revised for duplication, and included with relevance to practice section, highlighting shared roles and responsibilities across allied health and broader healthcare contexts. Each topic will be accompanied by a brief pre-recorded summary lecture to support equitable learning for students who may find text‑heavy materials less accessible. Alignment between asynchronous and synchronous learning activities are revised. Instructions and weighting to the three out of four assessment tasks (My Professional Career Portfolio, Case Study, and Interprofessional group work assignment) were revised and updated. My Professional Career Portfolio assessment is now revised as a Hurdle task that must be successfully completed to pass the unit, as it is an assurance of learning and a part of programmatic assessment linked to final semester portfolio assessment.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Intersectionality, Social Determinants of Health and Cultural Safety	See the MyLO site for the due date	10 %	LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 2:	Interprofessional Communication and Ethical Reasoning	See the MyLO site for the due date	25 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 3:	Case Scenario	See the MyLO site for the due date	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO4, LO5
Assessment Task 4:	Professional Career Portfolio	See the MyLO site for the due date	35 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Intersectionality, Social Determinants of Health and Cultural Safety

Task Description:

In this task you will respond to a series of multichoice or short answer questions related to the following topic areas:
• Intersectionality
• Social determinants of health
• Culturally Safe Health Care Practices
• Managing Bias
• Advocacy for non-biased treatment
approaches

Task Length:

20 multi-choice or short answer questions

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

10 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Identify the principles of intersectionality	LO3
2	Describe the core elements of the social determinants of health and public health.	LO2, LO4
3	Describe features of culturally safe health care practice	LO3
4	List strategies for managing bias in health care approaches	LO3
5	Explain how advocacy for non-biased treatment will occur	LO3

Assessment Task 2: Interprofessional Communication and Ethical Reasoning

Task Description:

Interprofessional Communication and Ethical Reasoning
Part 1. Group video
This task provides you the opportunity to work inter professionally to respond to ethical issues that you may experience as an allied health professional.

Part 2. Individual reflection
Watch at least one of the other group videos discussing a different scenario. This should be a different scenario than the one that your team presented on. Write a reflection comparing the ethical decision-making process of the different groups, their application of the Code of Ethics, and the communication skills used to complete the group task and to negotiate an outcome.

Task Length:

Part 1 – 10 minute video (group); Part 2 - 500 word written reflection (individual)

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

25 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Contribute to the group task and use your teamwork and communication skills to consider how the dilemma could best be resolved.	LO1, LO2, LO3
2	Describe and analyse the ethical considerations raised in the scenario referring to the Code of Ethics of each profession.	LO1, LO2
3	Describe the resolution to the ethical dilemma and justify it with reference to the values and principles in the Code of Ethics of each profession.	LO2, LO3
4	Use reflective practice to analyse and describe the ethical decision-making process, and the collaborative group processes and communication skills that were required.	LO1, LO2, LO3

Assessment Task 3: Case Scenario

Task Description:

You are required to apply a biopsychosocial, social determinants of health, person-centred approach and principles of evidence-based practice to ensure equitable, safe and quality services to analyse a practice scenario and a proposal for a specific intervention.

Task Length:

2000 words

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Demonstrate a biopsychosocial, person-centred, culturally responsive approach.	LO2, LO4
2	Identify the areas for intervention and analyse the safety, secondary prevention risks and health promotion opportunities.	LO2, LO5
3	Appraise the level evidence for an intervention.	LO2
4	Demonstrate understanding of interprofessional team roles and scope in managing client safety, secondary prevention and promoting health.	LO1, LO5
5	Evaluate processes that ensure safe and quality service provision.	LO5

Assessment Task 4: Professional Career Portfolio

Task Description:

Assessment Task: Professional Career Portfolio
The assessment task requires you to create a digital professional portfolio that you will maintain over the full duration of your course. The portfolio should align with your profession’s practice standards, reflect your individuality and professionalism, and provide insight into your personal and professional development as you transition to becoming an allied health professional across the scope of practice sectors and health philosophies.

This is a hurdle task that must be successfully completed to pass the unit.

Task Length:

A word limit does not apply

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

35 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Create an individualised professional portfolio that reflects your individuality and professionalism, and the professional standards of your chosen discipline.	LO1
2	State professional identity aspirations with attention to a variety of potential practice scopes and philosophies using a growth mindset.	LO1, LO4
3	Curate and present a range of reflections, learnings, and achievements that demonstrate reflective practice and critical appraisal of your developing knowledge, skills, and attributes in relation to your professional practice standards.	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5
4	Use self-reflection to identify learning needs and present them in a structured context to inform your professional development.	LO3

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Academic progress review

The results for this unit may be included in a review of your academic progress. For information about progress reviews and what they mean for all students, see Academic Progress Review in the Student Portal.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Required Resources

Required reading materials

You will be able to access the topic-specific reading list via the Readings List section on the MyLO homepage. Where applicable you will be able to access the topic-specific mandatory reading links embedded into MyLO to complete related activities on each topic.