HPER71-114: Educating the Health Workforce

Description

Throughout your career in health, there will be numerous opportunities to facilitate learning amongst your colleagues and with students. In this subject, you will examine and describe the learning needs of specific health workforces, integrate theory and learning practices to design health education, apply technologies for effective communication, and understand the importance of considering healthcare users in health education. You will also develop skills that will enable you to encourage and support learning through mentoring, supervision, and feedback amongst different health practitioners, empowering them to provide contemporary and quality healthcare in the future.

Subject details

Learning outcomes

1. Examine and describe the learning needs for a specific health workforce. 2. Integrate learning theories and practices to support learning and in developing health education. 3. Critically reflect on supervision, mentoring and feedback as strategies to promote learning and professional growth. 4. Apply technologies for effective communication for health education. 5. Integrate the needs and expectations of healthcare users to enhance health education. 6. Describe the use of learning practices to enhance aspects of team functioning in the health workplace.

Enrolment requirements

Subject outlines

• January 2022 [Intensive - .]
• May 2021 [Mixed (Face-to-Face) - .]
• January 2021 [Standard - .]
• May 2020 [Mixed (Face-to-Face)]

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