PTY2031 · Physiotherapy 3

Overview

PTY2031 develops the 5 themes on which the 4 year curriculum is based. • Theme 1: Personal & Professional Development: explores effective communication with clients with cardiorespiratory conditions. • Theme 2: Population, Society & Health: explores issues relating to healthcare policy development and delivery. • Theme 3: Fundamental Knowledge of Health Science: provides the biomedical and physiotherapy knowledge that underpins physiotherapy clinical practice. • Theme 4: Applied Practice: develops clinical skills integral to physiotherapy practice in the management of cardiorespiratory clients. • Theme 5: Research: explores knowledge and skills that relate to the ability to critically evaluate research.

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. Implement a range of strategies that enable effective communication with clients with cardiorespiratory problems and their caregivers
2. Identify the roles and responsibilities of the physiotherapist and other members of the health care team in the management of the client with acute and chronic cardiorespiratory illness
3. Recognise issues surrounding care and develop ethical and professional practice skills with respect to individual with cardiorespiratory illness
4. Identify the health and wellbeing priority areas in Australia and integrate them into areas of physiotherapy practice
5. Explain the anatomical structure and function of the thorax (including the cardiorespiratory system) and abdomen.
6. Describe the pathology of cardiorespiratory related diseases
7. Explain the physiology of the cardiorespiratory system and physiological adaptations to exercise and pathology
8. Apply knowledge of commonly encountered medications to physiotherapy practice.
9. Investigate and explain evidence based physiotherapy intervention relevant to the management of the cardiorespiratory client
10. Design and conduct an effective physiotherapy assessment of the cardiorespiratory system
11. Apply evidence based clinical reasoning to devise a client-centred problem list
12. Determine and demonstrate appropriate cardiorespiratory physiotherapy management for clients with cardiorespiratory problems across the lifespan
13. Evaluate and reflect on treatment outcomes, and devise a plan for ongoing management (including goal setting and discharge planning)
14. Maintain a safe and effective workplace, and minimise risk to both therapist and client
15. Apply appropriate evidence-based approaches to develop key aspects of a systematic review protocol (e.g. focusing research questions, database searching, data extraction and management)
16. Critically appraise key methodological issues in various research designs (e.g. randomised trials, case control studies, prognostic studies)
17. Describe key research concepts underpinning accurate measurement of health data (e.g. reliability, validity, diagnostic accuracy)

Workload

On campus: Workload is approximately 7-8 hours of lectures, and 9.5 hours of tutorials which includes case-based learning, clinicals skills, and applied anatomy sessions per week. You will be expected to undertake private study and preparation in addition to assigned self-directed study related to the material in the weekly study guide. Off campus: students may be required to attend a clinical immersion visit during the semester.

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