| Semester 1, 2023 Online | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCNG or GDNG or MNSG or GCHH or GDHH or MOHH or GCHE
Overview
This course aims to provide students with the specialised knowledge and skills required to better meet their legal, ethical and professional obligations in increasingly modernising and complex health care systems and service delivery environments. Keeping up to date with laws, regulations and professional standards are critical to decision-making in health care practice. Unlawful and unsafe practices can have dire consequences for both patients and practitioners. Optimum health care practice requires legal and ethical frameworks that practitioners can apply when confronted by workplace dilemmas.
Nurses and midwives need to fulfill their legal, ethical, and professional obligations as part of everyday practice, which is challenging in Australia鈥檚 contemporary and dynamic health care system. This course will provide nurses and midwives with the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to meet these challenge and be successful in fulfilling their obligations.
This course focuses on how the law in Australia operates and impacts on the delivery of health care services. Select topics explored in this course include (but not limited to) an overview of Australia's legal system, institutions and processes; professional negligence; consent; professional registration and complaints; and risk management in sometimes highly emotive and confronting health care environments.
Course learning outcomes
On completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate:
- Apply a knowledge of the legal system in Australia, and the laws, policies, and regulations, to health care practice;
- Critically review contemporary law and health literatures to inform legal, ethical, and professional health care practice;
- Utilise critical analysis skills to problem solve, in the context of complex clinical practice scenarios;
- Apply self-reflection processes to evaluate and respond to possible legal, ethical, or professional risks in the health care environment;
- Employ a realistic application of theories and principles of law and ethics to the design of reasoned responses to critical incidents in health care practice.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Perspective and health care context | 10.00 |
| 2. | Overview of legal and ethical frameworks in Australia | 20.00 |
| 3. | Civil Law and Liability | 30.00 |
| 4. | Criminal Law and Liability | 10.00 |
| 5. | Professional regulation, complaints and procedural fairness | 20.00 |
| 6. | Managing risk in health care practice | 10.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annotated bibliography | No | 50 | 2,5 |
| Case 精东传媒app | No | 50 | 1,3,4 |