NURS6301Cultural Context of Custody

Course handbook

Description

Custodial Health is a complex area of healthcare delivered in a variety of custodial and corrective environments.

You will have the opportunity to develop knowledge and enhance their skills to work effectively with individuals in contact with the criminal justice system.

By exploring the impact, the social determinates of health have on an individual's custodial journey, the health professional's capacity to maintain, promote and improve the health and well-being of individuals in will be developed.

Further to this, you will explore the national and international standards of practice and legislative frameworks in which their practice occurs. System, clinical, cultural, and interpersonal issues, specific to custodial health, will be examine providing you with the opportunity to develop skills in person-centred, culturally safe care

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Recognise the social determinants of health and the possibility of a history of psychological trauma experienced by people in contact with the criminal justice systems and how this influence incarceration rates

2. Demonstrate familiarity with current legislative requirements of custody in the context which they practice

3. Reflect on one's own personal values and attitudes arising when working with people whose behaviour and presentation is challenging and confronting. Identify and resolve ethical dilemmas which specifically arising when working in the custodial environments

4. Develop an understanding of the range of diversity within custodial populations and evaluate issues related to cultural safety and vulnerable populations (such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) relevant to the delivery of care in custodial environments

5. Demonstrate knowledge of the complexities of delivering quality healthcare in custodial environments

6. Discuss the value of interdisciplinary communication and how individual practitioners participate in this process

Content

Module 1: Custodial process and functions

• Legislative Frameworks
• Functioning and functions of prison and places of detention
• Correctional Bodies processes
• Standards and Ethics

Module 2: Social Justice as a healthcare framework  

• Social Determinates of Health
• Client health and social profile
• Models of care
• Interagency/disciplinary collaboration

Module 3: Person-centred care: client and professional safety in practice

• Cultural safety
• Trauma Informed Care
• Vicarious Trauma

Assumed knowledge

Foundations of health professional knowledge, legal and ethical issues, fundamentals of research, human bioscience, psychology, sociology related to practice. Principles of investigative approaches in health care, concepts, and theories relevant to practice, contemporary health care issues. Academic reading and writing skills, ability to access and evaluate information from a variety of sources, skills in critical analysis, critical judgment, synthesis, and evaluation. Ability to conceptualise practice.

Assessment items

Quiz: Online Quiz - Module 1
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Written Assignment: Context Specific Case Study
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Written Assignment: Reflexive Written Assessment
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Contact hours

Trimester 2 - 2024 - Online

Course outline

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