| Semester 1, 2023 Ipswich On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
Course Coordinator:
Requisites
Pre-requisite: BIO1206 and PMC1000
Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: PMC2000
OR (from 2023)
Pre-requisite: BIO1206 and PMC1110 and PMC1000
Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: PMC2000
Overview
Respiratory disease is prevalent in society and the impact is far reaching, affecting individuals, communities, healthcare systems on a local through to global scale. Respiratory conditions and emergencies span across all age groups and can present as both acute and chronic. As such, Health Care Practitioners are required to possess a sound understanding of respiratory disease epidemiology, pathophysiology, along with the skills necessary to assess and manage a wide range of respiratory conditions and emergencies.
This course will develop students' ability to acquire and critically appraise evidence to apply the findings to healthcare practice. This course utilises practice-based learning pedagogy with a focus on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and therapeutic management of patients with respiratory conditions and emergencies. All learning opportunities, including online discussion, peer learning activities and assessments are designed to develop students' diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills to risk stratify triage patients safely and justify alternate treatment pathways if appropriate. This course aims to equip students with the clinical reasoning, problem solving and clinical judgements skills to determine the most appropriate evidence-based treatment options to deliver safe and effective care to patients with respiratory conditions or emergencies.
Course learning outcomes
On completion of this course students should be able to:
- Apply anatomical, physiological, pathological concepts associated with respiratory disease to develop an understanding of respiratory conditions and emergencies:
- Examine epidemiological and demographic factors associated with respiratory disease and examine the purpose of health promotion and primary health care in prevention across the healthcare continuum:
- Employ appropriate autonomous person-centred decisions incorporating clinical reasoning that are underpinned by current best practice:
- Apply the principles of integrity, ethical conduct, accountability, respect and cultural competence for a range of diverse persons including vulnerable and Indigenous persons presenting with respiratory conditions or emergencies:
- Effectively communicate with a diverse range of persons and service providers.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Respiratory Disease - Definition and overview Anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology Aetiology and Epidemiology Risk factors |
10.00 |
| 2. | Asthma | 20.00 |
| 3. | COPD | 20.00 |
| 4. |
Respiratory Infections Haemoptysis |
10.00 |
| 5. |
Pneumothorax Plural diseases |
10.00 |
| 6. |
Inflammatory, Infectious, Structural respiratory conditions Cystic Fibrosis Anaemia |
10.00 |
| 7. | Environmental and Occupational conditions | 10.00 |
| 8. |
Resuscitation - respiratory arrest Mechanical ventilation |
10.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
(This text is available in the library via ClinicalKey.)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiz | No | 20 | 1,2,3 |
| Case 精东传媒app | No | 40 | 1,2,3,5 |
| Time limited online examinatn | No | 40 | 1,2,3,4,5 |