NUT5005 Professional practice: Individual case management and food systems
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
NUT5005 Professional practice: Individual case management and food systems is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2025 in Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Clayton. It needs NUT5001.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 1, Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before NUT5005
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After NUT5005
No unit lists NUT5005 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisite: Must be enrolled in course M6002.
Overview
This unit is a placement experience that will support your progression and fulfilment of entry level competencies in individual case management and foodservice management. You will be placed in health care contexts and develop skills in nutrition assessment, planning, management and monitoring of individuals, and exploring and improving food, food service and eating environments at the systems level. This unit will allow you to develop the skills required for nutrition and dietetic practice at the individual and systems level across a range of institutional care settings.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | Immersive |
| Second semester | Clayton | Immersive |
Assessment
- Professional practice portfolio (Pass/Fail)Work integratedCompetency hurdle-
- Food systems portfolio (Pass/Fail)ArtefactCompetency hurdle-
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Apply specialised knowledge of science, nutrition, diet and disease into assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation of individual cases in a healthcare environment including the provision of safe, high quality, nutritious and sustainable food.
- 2
Integrate personal, social, clinical, cultural, dietary, economic, environmental, ethical, medical and physiological factors into clinical reasoning and decision making in individual dietetics case management in the healthcare environment.
- 3
Demonstrate person-centred dietetics care across a range of cases which includes the ability to formulate, implement and evaluate effective individual case management including prioritising care, working with the inter-professional healthcare team and discharge planning.
- 4
Apply an evidence-based approach to support individual case management and critically evaluate effectiveness of intervention compared to best practice in dietetics.
- 5
Explore, evaluate and propose solutions to systems-level challenges in food service settings and food systems to support both individual case management and organisational goals of operation.
- 6
Exhibit oral and written communication skills and conflict resolution skills in professional interactions with nutrition and dietetics peers, colleagues, patients/clients and other stakeholders in the healthcare and academic environment.
- 7
Demonstrate person-centred counselling skills to negotiate and facilitate nutrition, behaviour and lifestyle change and empower clients with self-management skills.
- 8
Deliver effective counselling and education skills to support dietetic case management to the patients/client/family/carer and healthcare team.
- 9
Utilise a collaborative care approach by working effectively as a member of the dietetic and broader healthcare team to demonstrate mastery of person-centred dietetic practice.
- 10
Evaluate professional practice and make plans for continuing learning and development.
Workload and teaching
- Applied sessions104 hours
- Workshops12 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
You will spend the majority of time for this unit allocated to a healthcare setting (10 weeks of either 4 or 5 days per week placement within a health care setting, plus up to 18 hours of on campus workshops on non-placement days). You will also be expected to attend tutorials and presentations in the academic setting (scheduled around placement commitments) with the remaining time allocated for private study. You are expected to attend placement for the equivalent of full time hours during your scheduled placement weeks. It is also expected that you undertake private study outside of placement hours. Placements may extend into non standard university semester time.
For full details of the teaching approach to this unit, please refer to Moodle.
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Lisa Barker
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Lisa Barker
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for NUT5005?
You need NUT5001 before you enrol; and NUT5004 and NUT5003 before or alongside it. Enrolment rules also apply.
When is NUT5005 offered?
In 2025, NUT5005 runs in Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Clayton.
Does NUT5005 have an exam?
No. NUT5005 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.