| Effective Term: | 2026/04 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Work Integrated Project |
| Unit ID: | HEALT7006 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 060301 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
In this capstone project-based unit students are provided with an opportunity to design and implement a project that supports the development of advanced level leadership, scholarly inquiry, project management and communication skills. Students will develop an integrated project to demonstrate their understanding and application of advanced levels of management and leadership concepts and evidence-based practice in health. Students will work with an allocated supervisor who will offer guidance throughout the duration of the investigation. Students will have established timeframes and deliverables across the semester to support the production of project report at the conclusion of the unit. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | |  | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Critically evaluate the project management process as it relates to a health or healthcare setting. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Create a business case for a work integrated project that identifies, analyses and proposes change that is aligned to operational strategy and supported by scholarly evidence. |
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| S2. | Design a work integrated project implementation plan that addresses accountabilities, timeframes, ethical standards, strategies, tools, constraints and contingencies. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Execute an evidence-based work integrated project. |
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| A2. | Evaluate findings of the project and produce a formal evidence-based report, aimed at an executive level audience (e.g. senior management or board level). |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include: - Frameworks for project management
- Exploring ethical issues in an applied project
- Working effectively with stakeholders
- Planning and leading change
- Considering contingencies in an applied workplace project
- Implementing a work-based project against achievable timeframes and deliverables
- Integrating evidence into practice and management
- Managing practice change
- Advanced communication skills in a written and aural context
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| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life | 1 - Yes |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | S1 | Develop a brief project proposal that outlines the problem/area for improvement and the proposed remediation/improvement plan. | Project Proposal/Business case | 5-10% | | 2. | K1, S1, S2, A1, A2 | Implement the improvement plan. Evaluate the effectiveness of the changes implemented. Develop a written report pitched at a governing group within an appropriate setting that outlines the problem, solutions implemented, alignment to policies and frameworks and evaluation of the results (or current stage). | Project Report | 70-80% | | 3. | K1, S1, S2, A1, A2 | Oral presentation pitched at a governing group within an appropriate setting that succinctly outlines the project aims, implementation, outcomes and relevance to quality patient care. | Oral Presentation | 15-20% |
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