Unit of Study PBHL6005 Critical Review in Health (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

PBHL6004 - Leading Evidence-based Practice in Health
Anti-requisites

NURS5001 - Discovery and Enquiry in Health: The Critical Literature Review

Enrolment information

This unit builds on the work undertaken in PBHL6004 - Leading Evidence-based Practice in Health. Work in this unit is followed by PBHL6006 - Research Proposal for Health Innovation OR MHNS6003 - Applied Leadership in Mental Health Clinical Practice.

Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to broaden and deepen their understanding of literature analysis and research design in relation to an area relevant to their professional practice. Students will produce a critical literature review that supports the need for either future research or practice improvement.

Unit content

Using literature to refine problems and propose further research or practice improvement
Searching literature systematically
Analysing, refining and managing search results
Presenting results
Critique and discussion
Providing rationale and justification for the next step

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
SCU Online	Summer Term Term4	Summer Term Term4

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

develop a research question and problem statement to guide critical examination of an area of interest, located within health, social, and community care setting

discern between, and critique, the evidence supporting further research and practice improvement in health, social, and community services

analyse, refine and manage results of a systematic literature search

provide an evidence-based rationale for further research or practice improvement in health, social and community services

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Structured online learning (6 weeks)

Assessment
Discussion board	10%
Report	30%
Literature review	60%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Resources/Equipment

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Prescribed Texts

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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

Fee information

Domestic

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