POD5370 · Podiatry clinical practice 7

Overview

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in quality improvement and client education, through supervised practice and working as part of a private practice 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 role as a quality manager. You will complete a clinical placement in a private practice setting, where you will identify and develop a quality improvement activity relevant to the setting. Further to this, you will build your knowledge and experience to develop the competencies required for independent 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. Identify challenges/contemporary issues in the provision of safe health care to mitigate risk
2. Communicate appropriately and effectively across written and verbal mediums, with patients, staff, and other health care stakeholders;
3. Develop a quality initiative and evaluation plan relevant to clinical practice
4. Present and adapt the quality initiative based on setting specific feedback from industry
5. Apply key concepts in population health, epidemiology and measurement of health and disease relevant to lower limb health
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 6 hours of case presentations during the semester Off campus: Up to 96 hours of off-campus WIL placements supervised by clinical educators based at various placement providers. Non-contact hours per semester: Up to 42 hours of self-directed study and preparation of assessment tasks Total: 144 hours per semester.

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