XNN449 Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics Businesses and Services
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| Unit code: | XNN449 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | HLH401 and XNB347 and XNH348 and XNH356 |
| Antirequisite(s): | HLN703 |
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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Unit Outline: Semester 1 2027, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | XNN449 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Pre-requisite: | HLH401 and XNB347 and XNH348 and XNH356 |
| Anti-requisite: | HLN703 |
Overview
Quality assured, client-centred practice is key to successful nutrition and dietetics practice across all settings and sectors, including private practice and industry. In this unit, you will plan and execute an industry focused project using a range of evidence-based frameworks and inquiry methods to measure, assess and evaluate dietetics services to ensure delivery of high value, practice-related outcomes. You will apply critical inquiry and real-world data-driven decision-making using implementation frameworks to (i) assess current practice against best available evidence, and (ii) understand the influences of key stakeholders and current and potential clients. Your ability to produce creative, innovative and sustainable solutions to complex clinical and business problems will be developed, including value-based outcomes measurement constructs to improve healthcare outcomes. You will present your outputs and recommendations as an engaging piece of scholarship.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically assess the quality of nutrition and dietetic evidence-based practice using established implementation, quality and value-based frameworks
- Collaborate with peers, coaches and academics; responding and integrating constructive feedback to advance solutions that optimise quality assured, value-based client centred nutrition and dietetic practice that optimise healthcare outcomes for patients and clients
- Undertake a value-based industry project in food, nutrition and dietetic practice and apply autonomous, creative and advanced critical judgment to propose ethical and culturally safe solutions and processes that improve quality-assured, high value care and practice.
- Utilise digital technology and skills including generative AI to conduct, design and inform research into quality management in nutrition and dietetic practice.
- Translate, present and defend findings for system-level nutrition and dietetic practice using formats expected of professional and scholarship tailored to suit culturally and cognitively diverse audiences and stakeholders
Content
In this unit, the following topics will be explored and investigated:
- Care pathways and models of care in dietetics practice
- Value Based Health Care and systems approaches as applied to food and nutrition services and businesses
- Low and high value healthcare practice in nutrition and dietetics services
- Determinants of equity, and incorporating diversity and inclusion principles and practices
- Sustainable and socially responsible practice in food, nutrition and dietetic practice, business and entrepreneurial ventures
- Quality assurance evaluation and reporting in consumer-led, sustainable and evidence-based practice to meet high value and accredited nutrition and dietetic practice standards that align and respond to UN sustainability development goals.
- Implementation of evidence into nutrition and dietetic clinical practice: frameworks and case studies
- Influences of key stakeholders and strategic policy opportunities to implement high value evidence based nutrition and dietetics interventions and models of care in a range of practice settings, including aged care, private practice, regional and rural settings and community-based nutrition and dietetics practice
- Consumer led co-design to approaches in quality and value in healthcare and nutrition and dietetic services and business.
- Critical application of evaluation and measurement methods and tools used to assess healthcare outcomes and experiences of high value nutrition and dietetic care through the lenses of consumers, providers, communities and health professionals and target populations, integrating and designing measurement approaches and techniques as needed.
- Current and emerging digital systems to support data driven service evaluation and decision making in established and entrepreneurial nutrition and dietetic services and businesses
- Critical inquiry to advance dietetics practice by selecting, adopting and integrating an appropriate implementation framework and quality systems approach for delivery of high value nutrition and dietetic services
- Translate, communicate and disseminate outcomes and make recommendations for change in complex and competitive settings in nutrition and dietetics in a range of practice settings, including aged care, private practice, regional and rural settings and community-based nutrition and dietetics practice to improve nutrition and dietetic health outcomes.
Learning Approaches
You will engage in a range of interactive online learning modules, and workshop intensives to support your advanced understanding of the area. You will be allocated to an industry focused project and will work in teams with your peers. A coaching model will be used to support you as you progress through your project stages and milestones.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The assessment is staged, so you will be provided feedback periodically during your project using academic coaching in all the phases of the project and before each assessment task. The first assessment task is designed to give you early feedback, prior to commencing on your main body of work in assessment task two. At defined timepoints you will also be provided feedback from industry and your peers.
Assessment
Overview
You will be provided with a choice of real world nutrition and dietetic industry focussed scenarios that require innovative, and creative solutions to deliver high-value evidence-based dietetics practice. You will apply cognitive, technical and creative skills to propose and execute solutions that are focussed on advancing, enhancing, aligning and/or strengthening the value, quality, client centeredness, collaborative and inclusive practice and partnerships to assure evidenced based measures of success and outcomes.
The first assessment will give you early feedback on your proposed project methods prior to you commencing your detailed investigation.
Your second assessment will be an advanced piece of scholarship delivered in an appropriate format for the setting and context of the project, and may include a report, video, digital solution or other output agreed with your coach and unit co-ordinator.
The final assessment is for you to present your work to an audience of industry professionals, peers and university staff and to demonstrate the authenticity of your learning by addressing questions and queries related to your presentation in an oral defence.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch
You will be assigned to your nutrition and dietetics industry focused project and engage in the online learning models and coaching sessions, to develop a proposal pitch. You will present your proposal together with realistic goals (for timely completion) in a collaborative pitching session with your peers, academic coach and nutrition and dietetic industry partners. You will use a creative and engaging format enhanced with digital technologies to support your presentation and interactive engagement, discussion and critique with your audience.
Following your pitch, you will write a 3 page plan taking on your reflexive feedback from the pitching session for formative feedback.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details page for specific guidelines.
Assessment: Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution
You will integrate additional formative feedback received from your academic coach on your revised 3 page plan submitted with assessment 1. You will use this to guide and enhance your industry-focused project solution. Your revised project plan and project outcomes will be presented in an engaging piece of scholarship, and you will negotiate with your academic coach on the format and style for the piece of work, to assure it is consistent with industry practice, and aligned to the learning outcomes. For example, it may comprise a 15 page written documentation and an interactive website or a video. You will also include a 4 page of precis of key references, evidence-based guidelines and/or resources that underpin the work. Where relevant you include the interpreted digital data, and/or provide the curated, analysed materials (from the project) in appendices.
You will produce a one (1) page reflection on your experience of the project including your thoughts as a reflexive practitioner on your methodology and recommended future enhancements (should the activity be repeated).
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details page for specific guidelines.
Assessment: Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence
You will present the value-based healthcare outcomes of your industry focused solution in an engaging, professional 15 minute presentation with your peers, academic coach and industry stakeholders. You will respond to questions from the audience on your presentation in an articulate and respectful manner to demonstrate critical understanding of your topic with contextual nuance.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details page for specific guidelines.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, 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
A range of readings and resources will be made available on the Canvas site and QUT readings.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.XN90 Master of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Synthesise and apply specialised theoretical, technical and cultural knowledge and skills in food, nutrition and dietetics, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, curated to respond to a diverse range of contexts and audiences.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Critically analyse, reflect on, and integrate evidence-based research and practice to generate and evaluate creative, informed, client-centred and sustainable solutions to dynamic and complex current and emerging food, nutrition and dietetic problems.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Communicate and justify expert interpretations, translating complex food and nutrition information, theories and frameworks effectively, safely and inclusively using a range of oral, written and digital technologies and formats, responsive to the diverse cultural, social and cognitive needs of clients, interdisciplinary teams, stakeholders and the broader community.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Enact inclusive, clinically advanced and culturally responsive client-centred practice as a reflective, accountable and ethical professional, working independently and collaboratively to initiate, lead and manage innovative and entrepreneurial investigations and advances in food, nutrition and dietetics.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Plan and execute a substantial research-based project and/or scholarship that challenges, advances, builds capacity and assures quality in food, nutrition and dietetic practice, disseminating findings with individuals, interdisciplinary teams, stakeholders and communities.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2027, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | XNN449 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Pre-requisite: | HLH401 and XNB347 and XNH348 and XNH356 |
| Anti-requisite: | HLN703 |
Overview
Quality assured, client-centred practice is key to successful nutrition and dietetics practice across all settings and sectors, including private practice and industry. In this unit, you will plan and execute an industry focused project using a range of evidence-based frameworks and inquiry methods to measure, assess and evaluate dietetics services to ensure delivery of high value, practice-related outcomes. You will apply critical inquiry and real-world data-driven decision-making using implementation frameworks to (i) assess current practice against best available evidence, and (ii) understand the influences of key stakeholders and current and potential clients. Your ability to produce creative, innovative and sustainable solutions to complex clinical and business problems will be developed, including value-based outcomes measurement constructs to improve healthcare outcomes. You will present your outputs and recommendations as an engaging piece of scholarship.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically assess the quality of nutrition and dietetic evidence-based practice using established implementation, quality and value-based frameworks
- Collaborate with peers, coaches and academics; responding and integrating constructive feedback to advance solutions that optimise quality assured, value-based client centred nutrition and dietetic practice that optimise healthcare outcomes for patients and clients
- Undertake a value-based industry project in food, nutrition and dietetic practice and apply autonomous, creative and advanced critical judgment to propose ethical and culturally safe solutions and processes that improve quality-assured, high value care and practice.
- Utilise digital technology and skills including generative AI to conduct, design and inform research into quality management in nutrition and dietetic practice.
- Translate, present and defend findings for system-level nutrition and dietetic practice using formats expected of professional and scholarship tailored to suit culturally and cognitively diverse audiences and stakeholders
Content
In this unit, the following topics will be explored and investigated:
- Care pathways and models of care in dietetics practice
- Value Based Health Care and systems approaches as applied to food and nutrition services and businesses
- Low and high value healthcare practice in nutrition and dietetics services
- Determinants of equity, and incorporating diversity and inclusion principles and practices
- Sustainable and socially responsible practice in food, nutrition and dietetic practice, business and entrepreneurial ventures
- Quality assurance evaluation and reporting in consumer-led, sustainable and evidence-based practice to meet high value and accredited nutrition and dietetic practice standards that align and respond to UN sustainability development goals.
- Implementation of evidence into nutrition and dietetic clinical practice: frameworks and case studies
- Influences of key stakeholders and strategic policy opportunities to implement high value evidence based nutrition and dietetics interventions and models of care in a range of practice settings, including aged care, private practice, regional and rural settings and community-based nutrition and dietetics practice
- Consumer led co-design to approaches in quality and value in healthcare and nutrition and dietetic services and business.
- Critical application of evaluation and measurement methods and tools used to assess healthcare outcomes and experiences of high value nutrition and dietetic care through the lenses of consumers, providers, communities and health professionals and target populations, integrating and designing measurement approaches and techniques as needed.
- Current and emerging digital systems to support data driven service evaluation and decision making in established and entrepreneurial nutrition and dietetic services and businesses
- Critical inquiry to advance dietetics practice by selecting, adopting and integrating an appropriate implementation framework and quality systems approach for delivery of high value nutrition and dietetic services
- Translate, communicate and disseminate outcomes and make recommendations for change in complex and competitive settings in nutrition and dietetics in a range of practice settings, including aged care, private practice, regional and rural settings and community-based nutrition and dietetics practice to improve nutrition and dietetic health outcomes.
Learning Approaches
You will engage in a range of interactive online learning modules, and workshop intensives to support your advanced understanding of the area. You will be allocated to an industry focused project and will work in teams with your peers. A coaching model will be used to support you as you progress through your project stages and milestones.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The assessment is staged, so you will be provided feedback periodically during your project using academic coaching in all the phases of the project and before each assessment task. The first assessment task is designed to give you early feedback, prior to commencing on your main body of work in assessment task two. At defined timepoints you will also be provided feedback from industry and your peers.
Assessment
Overview
You will be provided with a choice of real world nutrition and dietetic industry focussed scenarios that require innovative, and creative solutions to deliver high-value evidence-based dietetics practice. You will apply cognitive, technical and creative skills to propose and execute solutions that are focussed on advancing, enhancing, aligning and/or strengthening the value, quality, client centeredness, collaborative and inclusive practice and partnerships to assure evidenced based measures of success and outcomes.
The first assessment will give you early feedback on your proposed project methods prior to you commencing your detailed investigation.
Your second assessment will be an advanced piece of scholarship delivered in an appropriate format for the setting and context of the project, and may include a report, video, digital solution or other output agreed with your coach and unit co-ordinator.
The final assessment is for you to present your work to an audience of industry professionals, peers and university staff and to demonstrate the authenticity of your learning by addressing questions and queries related to your presentation in an oral defence.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch
You will be assigned to your nutrition and dietetics industry focused project and engage in the online learning models and coaching sessions, to develop a proposal pitch. You will present your proposal together with realistic goals (for timely completion) in a collaborative pitching session with your peers, academic coach and nutrition and dietetic industry partners. You will use a creative and engaging format enhanced with digital technologies to support your presentation and interactive engagement, discussion and critique with your audience.
Following your pitch, you will write a 3 page plan taking on your reflexive feedback from the pitching session for formative feedback.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details page for specific guidelines.
Assessment: Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution
You will integrate additional formative feedback received from your academic coach on your revised 3 page plan submitted with assessment 1. You will use this to guide and enhance your industry-focused project solution. Your revised project plan and project outcomes will be presented in an engaging piece of scholarship, and you will negotiate with your academic coach on the format and style for the piece of work, to assure it is consistent with industry practice, and aligned to the learning outcomes. For example, it may comprise a 15 page written documentation and an interactive website or a video. You will also include a 4 page of precis of key references, evidence-based guidelines and/or resources that underpin the work. Where relevant you include the interpreted digital data, and/or provide the curated, analysed materials (from the project) in appendices.
You will produce a one (1) page reflection on your experience of the project including your thoughts as a reflexive practitioner on your methodology and recommended future enhancements (should the activity be repeated).
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details page for specific guidelines.
Assessment: Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence
You will present the value-based healthcare outcomes of your industry focused solution in an engaging, professional 15 minute presentation with your peers, academic coach and industry stakeholders. You will respond to questions from the audience on your presentation in an articulate and respectful manner to demonstrate critical understanding of your topic with contextual nuance.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details page for specific guidelines.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, 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
A range of readings and resources will be made available on the Canvas site and QUT readings.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.XN90 Master of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Synthesise and apply specialised theoretical, technical and cultural knowledge and skills in food, nutrition and dietetics, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, curated to respond to a diverse range of contexts and audiences.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Critically analyse, reflect on, and integrate evidence-based research and practice to generate and evaluate creative, informed, client-centred and sustainable solutions to dynamic and complex current and emerging food, nutrition and dietetic problems.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Communicate and justify expert interpretations, translating complex food and nutrition information, theories and frameworks effectively, safely and inclusively using a range of oral, written and digital technologies and formats, responsive to the diverse cultural, social and cognitive needs of clients, interdisciplinary teams, stakeholders and the broader community.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Enact inclusive, clinically advanced and culturally responsive client-centred practice as a reflective, accountable and ethical professional, working independently and collaboratively to initiate, lead and manage innovative and entrepreneurial investigations and advances in food, nutrition and dietetics.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence - Plan and execute a substantial research-based project and/or scholarship that challenges, advances, builds capacity and assures quality in food, nutrition and dietetic practice, disseminating findings with individuals, interdisciplinary teams, stakeholders and communities.
Relates to: Advanced Dietetic Quality and Practice - Industry focused project pitch, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Industry focused project solution, Advanced Quality and Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics - Final presentation and oral defence