PAR5340 · Extended care 2

Overview

In this unit, you will build on foundational urgent and primary care knowledge to develop extended assessment, management and referral capabilities for patients with acute and/or chronic presentations across the lifespan. The unit focuses on care of conditions across the lifespan inclusive of paediatric urgent care, chronic disease, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, addiction medicine, safeguarding and complex care coordination. You will strengthen your clinical reasoning skills, escalation of clinical decisions, person-centred care and interprofessional communication through case-based learning, tutorials and applied workshop activities.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse assessment approaches applicable to acute and/or chronic urgent care presentations across the lifespan.
2. Apply a clinical reasoning framework to enable systematic assessment of patients in primary care and/or urgent care settings.
3. Apply critical thinking to recognise deterioration, red flags and escalation requirements in the management of patients in primary care and/or urgent care settings.
4. Develop evidenced based, person-centred, culturally safe management plans for patients requiring care in urgent, primary and community-based environments.
5. Communicate and collaborate with interprofessional teams to implement referrals, safety-netting and continuity of care across urgent, primary, community and health settings.
6. Analyse critically clinical decision-making, professional responsibility and governance requirements in complex extended care practice.

Workload

You will be expected to complete at least 12 hours of directed learning, including online lectures, tutorials and workshop activities, and a minimum of 12 hours of private study and self-directed learning per week.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.