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HEA504 - Communication and Assessment Skills for Clinical Education

2024

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Nursing

Credit Points

Equivalent Units

Prerequisites

Incompatible

Assumed Knowledge

Unit Description

This unit will enable students to critically evaluate communication and assessment theory for the facilitation of learning. Students will link theory to practice through appraisal and implementation of skills assessment tools. Unit activities will encourage students to give and receive feedback and critically reflect on their own development as facilitators and assessors of clinical learning.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Critically evaluate established theories and models of communication and assessment used within preceptorship and facilitation
2.	Analyse factors which could either enhance or impede communication and assessment in the clinical learning environment to a variety of audiences.
3.	Create, implement and evaluate a clinical skills assessment tool based on local policy and procedure framed by clinical assessment pedagogy.
4.	Give and receive constructive feedback about communication and assessment skills to enable and inform feedback practice and ongoing improvements in performance.
5.	Critically reflect on their own development as facilitators of clinical learning through communication and assessment.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Tutorial Assessments (500 words)	5%	'1,2,3,4,5
2.	Critical Reflection (1000 words)	20%	'1,2,5
3.	Assessment Tool Project (1500 words)	35%	'1,2,3
4.	Assessment Tool Presentation (30 mins)	40%	'3,4,5

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2024	Semester 2	External	External Studies	OLR

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