OCC5070 · Transition to practice

Overview

In this unit you will refine knowledge and skills in professional self-management appropriate for practice as entry level occupational therapists. You will identify and document your learning needs for your final practice education placement and develop the ability to set objectives for personal practice development. Strategies for identifying and meeting your individual professional development needs, the legal and ethical requirements for your professional competency at graduate level, your role within the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (Ahpra) and the credentialing process will be identified. The unit will help you better understand recruitment and selection processes. You will conduct a literature review related to an occupational therapy practice area in collaboration with an industry mentor Concurrently you will continue to work 2 days per week throughout the term (135 hours) in collaboration with a community-based agency to address a specific occupational need for an identified group, community or population. You will learn and apply project management skills on how to implement, evaluate and report on chosen quality improvement activities. During this time, you will consolidate skills in providing evidence to support the selected project deliverable/s and how to apply ethical principles to ensure safe practice when implementing deliverables that will contribute to service development.

Areas of study: Occupational therapy

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Appraise your learning needs in order to maintain competence and professional development that meet professional standards and credentialing processes in occupational therapy.
2. Identify, evaluate and critique a range of professional support strategies that can be used to enhance professional practice.
3. Investigate, analyse, synthesise and communicate effectively evidence on a complex theoretical concept or problem in an area of occupational therapy practice that contributes to professional practice or scholarship
4. Apply ethical principles in designing and implementing quality improvement deliverables to a community partnership project and adapt service provision to ensure safe practice.
5. Interpret and synthesise primary and secondary information sources to guide the development of project deliverable/s.
6. Collaborate with key stakeholders to co-design project deliverable/s that meet the needs of the community partnership.
7. Synthesise the principles of enabling occupational participation, occupational rights and justice to groups, communities and populations to promote health and wellbeing, in the context of project implementation.
8. Identify and implement appropriate strategies to evaluate project processes, impacts and outcomes.
9. Interpret and transmit relevant project management knowledge, skills and ideas to key stakeholders using effective verbal and written communication
10. Identify and implement appropriate reflection strategies during and following service provision, and adapts this to improve own performance.

Workload

9 weeks of academic and practice education placement comprising: 2 days per week PCP practice education placement 4 hours per week PCP tutorial 4 hours per week Transition to practice tutorial 12 hours per week self-directed study Practice placement education weeks 1-9 - up to 16 hours per week. Practice placement education will require you to travel to fieldwork locations. These may be near or away from the campus.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.