SPH401 Professional Issues in Speech Pathology (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject is intended to provide students with skills for: working in health care teams engaged in service development, primary health care and health promotion, undertaking management roles, and engaging in ethical reasoning in providing services to clients. Emphasis is placed on practice in regional and remote settings.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: SPH401
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Assumed Knowledge:
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
Be able to:
- apply knowledge of primary health care, health promotion, community profiling and project budgeting to develop a health promotion grant application.
- apply knowledge of management skills and quality assurance (QA), to conduct a QA project.
- apply knowledge of ethical principles and problem solving to management of ethical dilemmas.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
Module 1 Health and wellbeing; health promotion Module 2 Management issues - tasks and skills for managers, recruitment and selection processes, writing grants and tenders and associated budgets, quality assurance, marketing allied health services, medico-legal reporting Module 3 Ethical reasoning
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.