NUT5006 Professional practice: Research and employability

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Synthesise relevant literature to support nutrition and dietetic research and practice.

2. 2

   Execute a research project; collecting, organising, analysing, interpreting, communicating and disseminating data with independence.

3. 3

   Translate the implications of research findings for dietetics practice, advocacy and key stakeholders.

4. 4

   Integrate ethical, personal and professional behaviours consistent with evidence-based research practice, and nutrition and dietetics professional codes of practice.

5. 5

   Illustrate contemporary leadership, personal and interpersonal skills that combine critical, creative thinking to address nutrition and dietetic issues.

6. 6

   Synthesise, translate and communicate data and key research in nutrition and dietetics practice.

7. 7

   Communicate insights and perspectives on personal learning journey and dietetic practice goals.

8. 8

   Evaluate own culture, values, beliefs, attitudes, biases, assumptions, privilege and power at the individual and systems level, and their influence on professional practice.

9. 9

   Evaluate the impact of how colonisation and systematic racism, social, cultural, behavioural and economic factors affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health outcome and how this might influence dietetic practice and outcomes.