XNB453 Professional Practice in Nutrition
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| Unit code: | XNB453 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | LQB481 and (LQB488 or LSB250) and (XNB255 or XNH355) and (XNB350 or XNH350 or PUB509) and (XNB251 or PUB405) and XNB252 and XNB345 and completion of 240cp including all core units |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Students are expected to have completed all theoretical units in nutrition |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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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: | XNB453 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LQB481 and (LQB488 or LSB250 or LSB231) and (XNB255 or XNH355) and (XNB350 or XNH350 or PUB509) and (XNB251 or PUB405) and XNB252 and XNB345 and completion of 240cp including all core units |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Students are expected to have completed all theoretical units in nutrition |
| Coordinator: | Carolyn Keogh | carolyn.keogh@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit is the capstone unit of your course and captures the work that you have learned across your degree. To develop effective nutrition programs/strategies, you must apply appropriate theories, real-world food and nutrition knowledge, attitudes and beliefs and issues of different community groups. You will potentially have opportunity to work with community programs that interlock with other health services. Program planning underpins the community nutrition placement and this unit applies your program planning skills to a nutrition related project. Note: Students may only enrol in this unit in Semester 1 with Course Coordinator permission.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Implement principles of the project management [XN43 CLO-4]
- Interpret and translate scientific knowledge and principles related to nutrition into practical information. [XN43 CLO-1,2,3]
- Critically reflect on your organisation, record keeping, evaluation of outcomes, goal-setting, planning and strategies relevant to your identified project [XN43 CLO-4]
- Demonstrate professional communication skills and evidence based practice [XN43 CLO-3,4]
- Demonstrate academic and professional core skills including communication, critique, organisation reflection, ethical practice and critical cultural consciousness [XN43 CLO-4]
Content
This unit incorporates a Work Integrated Learning placement where you will undertake project work as designated by the unit coordinator. You will be required to work on a project for the equivalent of 15 days. This may involve stakeholder consultations at various locations and you will need to be flexible to meet the project requirements. Wherever possible you will undertake the project in pairs.
Specific skill and graduate capabilities you will demonstrate include:
- knowledge and skills relevant to nutrition practice;
- critical, creative and analytical thinking, and effective problem-solving;
- effective communication in a variety of contexts and modes;
- the capacity for life-long learning;
- the ability to work independently and collaboratively;
- social and ethical responsibility and an understanding of Indigenous and international perspectives;
- characteristics of self-reliance and leadership.
In this unit you will also complete a tailored employability module to add to your course e-Portfolio
Learning Approaches
This unit will be available in internal mode. This unit engages you through practical application experiences. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills from your course during a Work Integrated Learning experience. You will be placed in in pairs or up to groups of four over the semester. You will receive support from the unit coordinator throughout the placement. You are expected to demonstrate initiative and problem solving skills and demonstrate self-direction and accountability for your own learning. Tutorial assistance is provided by QUT throughout the semester.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback to Students
Formative assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on your learning at key points and a summative assessment will be undertaken upon completion of your Work Integrated Learning placement. Personal development and reflection are encouraged throughout. Feedback will also be provided through regular tutorials throughout the semester.
Assessment
Overview
General Assessment Information
There are three pieces of assessment to be completed in this unit and each task is designed to assess particular learning outcomes. For the purpose of demonstrating learning outcomes, a satisfactory performance (greater than 50%) is required in all assessments to obtain a passing grade for this unit.
Threshold Assessment Conditions
In this unit, for you to be eligible to receive a passing grade, threshold assessment conditions apply. If you do not achieve the pass level for an assessment task you are able to make one resubmission of this work for the minimum pass level, only when their achieved mark/grade is within 10% (or 1 grade) of the pass level for the assessment item. You are advised to seek feedback on your submission from the unit coordinator prior to resubmission.
The unit is graded.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Literature Review
This is an individual task. You will be required to completed matrix of current literature in the topic area relevant to your placement project.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Threshold Assessment:
Threshold conditions apply to this assessment item.
Assessment: Portfolio
You will complete a series of activities to demonstrate your capability in nutrition practice and include in your e-portfolio. Activities will include innovative pitch, reflections on your professional attributes, competence, capabilities and career plans.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Threshold Assessment:
Threshold conditions apply to this assessment item.
Assessment: Placement Performance
You must complete the required time on the project and complete a range of project planning activities and reports.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Threshold Assessment:
Threshold conditions apply to this assessment item.
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.
Requirements to Study
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Hughes, R., and Margetts, B. (2011). Practical public health nutrition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Other
XNH350 Community and Public Health Nutrition Lecture notes and materials.
Risk Assessment Statement
Assessment for this unit will involve a workplace-based assignment. You should be aware of and abide by the health and safety requirements of the workplace. You are expected to undergo any induction or other training provided in the workplace for employees or visitors to the workplace as appropriate. See the Workplace Integrated Learning website for further details including vaccination and working with children requirements. If you are working in a laboratory you will be required to undergo an induction and to abide by all the requirements as established.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | XNB453 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LQB481 and (LQB488 or LSB250 or LSB231) and (XNB255 or XNH355) and (XNB350 or XNH350 or PUB509) and (XNB251 or PUB405) and XNB252 and XNB345 and completion of 240cp including all core units |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Students are expected to have completed all theoretical units in nutrition |
| Coordinator: | Carolyn Keogh | carolyn.keogh@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit is the capstone unit of your course and captures the work that you have learned across your degree. To develop effective nutrition programs/strategies, you must apply appropriate theories, real-world food and nutrition knowledge, attitudes and beliefs and issues of different community groups. You will potentially have opportunity to work with community programs that interlock with other health services. Program planning underpins the community nutrition placement and this unit applies your program planning skills to a nutrition related project. Note: Students may only enrol in this unit in Semester 1 with Course Coordinator permission.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Implement principles of the project management [XN43 CLO-4]
- Interpret and translate scientific knowledge and principles related to nutrition into practical information. [XN43 CLO-1,2,3]
- Critically reflect on your organisation, record keeping, evaluation of outcomes, goal-setting, planning and strategies relevant to your identified project [XN43 CLO-4]
- Demonstrate professional communication skills and evidence based practice [XN43 CLO-3,4]
- Demonstrate academic and professional core skills including communication, critique, organisation skills, reflection, collaboration, team work, ethical practice and critical cultural consciousness [XN43 CLO-4]
Content
This unit incorporates a Work Integrated Learning placement where you will undertake project work as designated by the unit coordinator. You will be required to work on a project for the equivalent of 15 days. This may involve stakeholder consultations at various locations and you will need to be flexible to meet the project requirements. Wherever possible you will undertake the project in pairs.
Specific skill and graduate capabilities you will demonstrate include:
- knowledge and skills relevant to nutrition practice;
- critical, creative and analytical thinking, and effective problem-solving;
- effective communication in a variety of contexts and modes;
- the capacity for life-long learning;
- the ability to work independently and collaboratively;
- social and ethical responsibility and an understanding of Indigenous and international perspectives;
- characteristics of self-reliance and leadership.
In this unit you will also complete a tailored employability module to add to your course e-Portfolio
Learning Approaches
This unit will be available in internal mode. This unit engages you through practical application experiences. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills from your course during a Work Integrated Learning experience. You will be placed in pairs or up to groups of four over the semester. You will receive support from the unit coordinator throughout the placement. You are expected to demonstrate initiative and problem solving skills and demonstrate self-direction and accountability for your own learning. Tutorial assistance is provided by QUT throughout the semester.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback to Students
Formative assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on your learning at key points and a summative assessment will be undertaken upon completion of your Work Integrated Learning placement. Personal development and reflection are encouraged throughout. Feedback will also be provided through regular tutorials throughout the semester.
Assessment
Overview
General Assessment Information
There are three pieces of assessment to be completed in this unit and each task is designed to assess particular learning outcomes. For the purpose of demonstrating learning outcomes, a satisfactory performance (greater than 50%) is required in all assessments to obtain a passing grade for this unit.
Threshold Assessment Conditions
In this unit, for you to be eligible to receive a passing grade, threshold assessment conditions apply. If you do not achieve the pass level for an assessment task you are able to make one resubmission of this work for the minimum pass level, only when their achieved mark/grade is within 10% (or 1 grade) of the pass level for the assessment item. You are advised to seek feedback on your submission from the unit coordinator prior to resubmission.
The unit is graded.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Literature Review
As part of your WIL placement you will be required to research the current literature in the nutrition topic identified for your Work Integrated Placement placement project. In completing this task, you will demonstrate the first phase of the project management planning cycle for your placement project. In preparing your literature review, you will develop a matrix to synthesize the literature and guide your review.
Your literature review will be a maximum of 3 pages. You will also submit your list of references used for the literature review (2 pages maximum), and a matrix table (2 pages maximum)
This task is authentic as it is reflects the type of work undertaken by nutritionists in industry.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
Threshold conditions apply to this assessment item.
Assessment: Portfolio
You will complete a series of activities and compile these in a portfolio to demonstrate your competence in nutrition, graduate attributes and readiness for employment. Your portfolio will be comprised of:
- a log of your placement (up to 3 pages) and provide a supervisor and stakeholder report of your performance.
- a professionalism form (2 pages).
- an innovative video pitch to describe yourself for a prospective employer/business (3 minutes)
- professional resume (2 pages)
- reflections on your professional attributes, competence, capabilities and career plans in the form of a job application (2 pages)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
Threshold conditions apply to this assessment item.
Assessment: Placement Project Report
You will attend one organisation and undertake project work as designated by the placement supervisor and unit coordinator. You will be required to work on a project within a designated organisation for the equivalent of 15 days over the semester with some flexibility to cater to placement supervisor and project needs.
You will submit a brief 1 page project plan on your project in the early stages of your placement for formative feedback from your QUT unit coordinator.
You will write a placement project report (5 pages), and submit the materials you have developed for this project (either electronic or written - length/type variable).
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
Threshold conditions apply to this assessment item.
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.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
See the Workplace Integrated Learning website for further details including vaccination and working with children requirements.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Hughes, R., and Margetts, B. (2011). Practical public health nutrition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Other
XNH350 Community and Public Health Nutrition Lecture notes and materials.
Risk Assessment Statement
Assessment for this unit will involve a workplace-based assignment. You should be aware of and abide by the health and safety requirements of the workplace. You are expected to undergo any induction or other training provided in the workplace for employees or visitors to the workplace as appropriate.
If you are working in a laboratory you will be required to undergo an induction and to abide by all the requirements as established.