POD5350 · Podiatry clinical practice 5

Overview

You will have the opportunity to apply your podiatry knowledge and skills in assessment, treatment and client education, through supervised practice and working as part of a larger health care team. You will be exposed to professional, ethical and legal aspects of podiatry care and have opportunities to develop technical, clinical, personal and professional skills. This unit will help you develop your professional identity as a podiatrist and an important member of multidisciplinary care teams. You will complete a clinical placement in either an acute, subacute or community health setting, where you will apply evidence-based practice in the decision-making process. Further to this, you will build your knowledge and experience to develop the competencies required for independent practice. You will analyse patient transitions through health services and use audits to improve clinical practice.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

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. Demonstrate professional behaviour in patient care and rights that are culturally sensitive and in accordance with legal requirements;
2. Communicate appropriately and effectively across written and verbal mediums, with patients, staff, and other health care stakeholders;
3. Assess patient needs, including selection of relevant measures of health indicators and outcomes;
4. Plan and adapt patient interactions during person-centred goal development;
5. Provide appropriate interventions and use appropriate outcome measures for patients in different clinical contexts including podiatric treatment and use of pharmaceutical therapy;
6. Identify, critically appraise and apply evidence-based practice to patient care in different clinical settings and contexts.

Workload

Contact hours per semester On campus and online: Up to 12 hours of compulsory facilitated simulated clinical practice and case presentations interspersed between off-site clinical placements. Off campus: Up to 122 hours of off-campus WIL placements supervised by clinical educators based at various placement providers. Non-contact hours per semester: Up to 10 hours of self-directed study and preparation of assessment tasks Total: 144 hours per semester.

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