Clinical Dietetics Placement 2
Duration
- 25 days, full time or equivalent
Contact hours
- 5 week block placement (190 hours)
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2024 teaching periods
| Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 1 |
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 | |
|---|---|---|
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
2. Positively influence the health of individuals, groups and/or populations to achieve nutrition outcomes.
3. Apply critical thinking and integrate evidence into practice.
4. Collaborate with clients and stakeholders.
5. Meet entry level National Competency Standards for Dietitians in Australia.
6. Demonstrate reflection on practice and development of self-awareness, insight and cultural competency.
Courses with unit
Master of DieteticsUnit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Placement Placement | 38 | 5 | 190 |
TOTAL | 190 hours/12.5cp |
*This is part of the minimum 100 days of placement required by the Dietitian’s Association of Australia as part of the accreditation requirements.
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Placement Portfolio | Individual | 20% | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
| Major case written report and presentation | Individual | 20% | 2,3,5,6 |
| Practical competencies Progression | Individual | 60% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
General skills outcomes
- Teamwork Skills
- Analysis Skills
- Problem Solving Skills
- Communication Skills
- Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
- Ability to work independently
Content
- This is a placement unit which will support students to meet entry-level clinical dietetics Competency Standards for Dietitians in Australia
- Working collaboratively
- Professional practice
- Graduate Attribute 1 (Communication 1 - Verbal Communication)
- Graduate Attribute 2 (Communication 2 - Communicating using different media)
- Graduate Attribute 3 (Teamwork 1 - Collaboration and negotiation)
- Graduate Attribute 4 (Teamwork 2 - Teamwork roles and processes)
- Graduate Attribute 5 (Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy)
- Graduate Attribute 6 (Digital Literacies 2 - Technical literacy)
Study resources
- Reading materials.