XNB148 Foundations in Nutrition Practice
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| Unit code: | XNB148 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,956 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | XNB148 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Smita Nambiar-Mann | smita.nambiar@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit will support the development of your professional identity as a nutrition professional and assist you in exploring your understanding of 'self' and your relationship with food, health and wellness. You will be introduced to the discipline specific skills, competencies and attributes required for evidenced based practice in nutrition and dietetics. The unit will introduce you to the nutrition profession and potential career paths and employability skills and attributes, with themes and tools expanded later in your course. The unit will lay foundational skills in professionalism, academic literacy, statistics, communication and cultural competence to support your success in the demonstration of learning outcomes in advanced units in your course including your competence as a reflexive scientist and health professional.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Source and evaluate literature as evidence of critical, creative and systems thinking in nutrition and dietetics. [XN43, XN45 CLO-1,2]
- Develop and apply foundational nutrition and dietetics competencies and skills to conduct a nutrition assessment. [XN43, XN45 CLO-1]
- Effectively use descriptive statistics and basic software in the collection, organisation and interpretation of data. [XN43, XN45 CLO-1]
- Analyse, reflect on and explain your personal attributes, including cultural identity, values and experiences and how these influence the provision effective, ethical and safe nutrition and dietetics practice and personalised strategies to support self-care and career plans. [XN43, XN45 CLO-4]
- Demonstrate academic and professional core skills including communication, critique, reflection, ethical practice and critical cultural consciousness. [XN43, XN45 CLO-4]
Content
Module 2: Personal attributes and Cultural competency in nutrition and dietetics
Module 3: Introduction to Nutrition and Dietetics Skills
This module will also develop your underpinning skills as an enquiring and curious evidenced based nutritionist and/or dietitian. Topics covered will include the nutrition care process, nutrition assessment, anthropometry, technology, systems thinking and communication (including in cross-cultural contexts).
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through an inquiry-based learning approach. The unit will use a blend of face-to-face (including interactive workshops), online activities and Work Integrated Learning activities. You will be expected to engage with this online content prior to weekly on campus sessions, the detail of which will be communicated to you on the Canvas site. The on campus sessions will include, simulation activities, clinic visits and case studies. There will be interactive online modules to for self-paced learning in a variety of areas. The quality of your learning within this unit will be dependent upon your engagement with the online content and its application in the experiential sessions. Your learning from this unit will contribute to the development of your professional practice.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback to Students
You will be provided the opportunity to do online formative quizzes early in the unit to demonstrate your understanding of key concepts and skills, including statistics. Feedback will be provided in workshops on sections of your e-portfolio. You will be provided feedback on your summative assessment tasks in the form of written comments (and/or recorded verbal comments) on Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
General Assessment Information
Each assessment item is designed to measure your knowledge and mastery of professional skills stated in the learning outcomes
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Annotated Bibliography
You will prepare an annotated bibliography to demonstrate your academic literacies.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Creative Work
You will work in teams to identify a 'wicked' problem in nutrition and dietetics, and explore and critique the popular media and evidence to come up with your opinion on the matter, considerate of professional and ethical practice as well as popular counter arguments. You will present your summary to your peers in a creative multi-modal format.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Portfolio
You will initiate an e-portfolio, which you will use as a repository of evidence to demonstrate your competence at the end of your course and support your career planning. Your portfolio will comprise evidence of successful completion of a series of tasks to demonstrate engagement and reflection on your critical cultural competence, as well as foundation nutrition and dietetics skills including nutrition assessment and organisation of data.
A formative reflection item will be due in week 3 and the completed e-portfolio due in week 13
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit. Further information regarding policies and procedures, such as health and safety, risk management, confidentiality, intellectual property, disclosure and insurance, is available via the QUT Faculty of Health.