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Sturt Rd, Bedford Park
South Australia 5042
Follow Flinders
Year
2021
Units
4.5
Contact
12 x 8-hour independent studies per semester
10 x 2-hour on-line tutorials per semester
10 x 2-hour on-line tutorials per semester
Prerequisites
^ = May be enrolled concurrently
1 Admission into GDPDHC-Graduate Diploma in Disaster Health Care
1a Admission into MDHC/CW-Master of Disaster Health Care (Coursework)
2 2 of DISH8001, DISH8002
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a) and 2)
1a Admission into MDHC/CW-Master of Disaster Health Care (Coursework)
2 2 of DISH8001, DISH8002
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a) and 2)
Course context
To enrol in this topic, the student must have been deployed to a declared disaster as part of an Australian government team (or approved equivalent) within the past two (2) years.
Assessment
Assignment(s);
Topic description
In this topic students will critically reflect on and evaluate their own practice and that of the response team following a previous deployment to a disaster setting.
Educational aims
This topic aims to:
- Improve student's ability to critically reflect on and evaluate their own practice and that of their response teams during deployment to a disaster setting in order to improve the effectiveness of disaster responses
Expected learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
- Identify and critique the cultural impacts of a deployed health care team in a disaster setting
- Critically reflect on their own practice when deployed in any disaster setting
- Discuss the management of the health and wellbeing of the team and all its members in all phases of the disaster response
- Analyse the role of debriefing techniques in the disaster setting
- Perform an internal evaluation of a disaster response from the perspective of the responding agency
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